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"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance."

Nicholas Tesla 1926

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"Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; "

Tesla cont.

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"and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

Tesla 1926 cont.

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NPR: "new research has scrambled notions of how empathy works as a force in the world"

"one of the strongest triggers for human empathy is observing some kind of conflict between two other parties...."

npr.org/2019/04/15/712…
Once they take a side in the conflict, they are drawn into the perspective of that side and not the other, leading to polarization.

In short, empathy is pathway to tribalization (and violence).
"Breithaupt and other researchers think of them (terrorists) as classic examples of people afflicted with an 'excess of empathy. They feel (deeply for) the suffering of their people.'"

However, this is selective empathy. They reserve empathy for the people who "deserve it."
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John Robb
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Oxford: Anthropologists have surveyed 60 different cultures around the world to distill 7 universal moral rules.

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…
"People everywhere face a similar set of social problems, and use a similar set of moral rules to solve them.The study also detected 'variation on a theme' — although all societies seemed to agree on the seven basic moral rules, they varied in how they prioritised or ranked them"
"morality-as-cooperation predicts that specific forms of cooperative behavior—helping kin, helping one’s group, reciprocating costs and benefits, displaying hawkish and dovish traits, dividing disputed resources, and respecting prior possession—will be regarded as morally good."
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Same mechanism used in France that I described in my NYTimes editorial back in 2005.

nytimes.com/2005/10/15/opi…
Technocrats are still trying to parse the yellow vests.

"It’s not just the protests’ fierceness and geographic spread that have taken the country by surprise.. There is also no clear media consensus as to what they are protesting.."

citylab.com/transportation…
Technocrats like Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky see all opposition to their policies as illegitimate:

"There’s nothing democratic about the emergence of Facebook group administrators as spokespeople for what passes for a popular movement."

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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