Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
… the strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil ….
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)
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Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought
Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/losing-our-minds-how-ai-is-erasing-the-space-of-thought
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)
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#tl;dr "The #BanalityOfEvil shows how #OrdinaryPeople through #Thoughtlessness and #Complacency become complicit in #UnimaginableCrimes. In #Gaza, this #ComplicityKills — silence and inaction fuel #Genocide." #StopTheGenocide 💚 ✊ 🔥
A quotation from Orwell, George:
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Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthdoxy is unconsciousness.
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https://wist.info/orwell-george/16450/
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“Hey Siri; define #thoughtlessness”
Grrr… 😡
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