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Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:39:11 +0000

Three weeks later, I sat with A in my office. I asked him to describe his experience of attending parties and other social events. “I just feel weird,” he said, “like I’m not part of it, which is odd as these are all my friends. I know they like me and are happy I’m there, but I still don’t feel connected. I only feel lonely or bored when I’m with many people, and not when I’m with one or two close friends or when I’m alone.” Then he added: “I don’t like to say those things because it makes me sound like an alien. Do you think there’s something wrong with me?”

Tags: #otrovert #psychology #social #society

Nobody Cares

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:39:50 +0000

Why does nobody care about anything? The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don't care.

Tags: #care #life #politics #society

Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:32:46 +0000

Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal. It’s false, and believing in it encourages selfishness, discrimination, and indifference to the plight of the unfortunate.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #meritocracy #psychology #society

We, the Web Kids - Pastebin.com

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:38:59 +0000

What we value the most is freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of access to information and to culture. We feel that it is thanks to freedom that the Web is what it is, and that it is our duty to protect that freedom. We owe that to next generations, just as much as we owe to protect the environment.

Tags: #copyfight #culture #freedom #imported:pinboard #society #to:fb #web

A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:22:04 +0000

"As readers, we consume. As authors, we create. Our society is changing from consumers to creators."

Tags: #authorship #creativity #literacy #publishing #reading #socialmedia #society #twitter #web2.0 #writing

CRACKED.com - What is the Monkeysphere?

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:39:54 +0000

"It's just the one single reason society doesn't work."

Tags: #brains #monkeys #philosophy #psychology #society

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - DAVID LYKKEN - Laws requiring parental licensure

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:03:38 +0000

"I believe that, during my grandchildren's lifetimes, the U.S. Supreme Court will find a way to approve laws requiring parental licensure."

Tags: #edge #future #kids #society

All in the Mind: 18 June 2005 - Social Prosthetics – How You're On My Mind

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:36:43 +0000

"Our relationships with others are akin to social prosthetics for the mind, argues one leading Harvard psychologist. We’re hardwired to care as much as we are to compete, says another, and the clues lie in the biology of our brains."

Tags: #cogsci #philosophy #science #society

Computers as technotopian shapers of humanity

Tue, 18 May 2004 15:13:35 +0000

Tags: #compsci #society