#lijiang — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lijiang, aggregated by home.social.
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ErichFromm #HumanDestiny #TheFuture #ThePast
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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The real lesson of the past is that it shows us what can be done for the future.
-- Margaret Sanger⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MargaretSanger #TheFuture #ThePast
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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If one is afraid of intimacy yet afraid of being alone, even a stand-alone (not networked) computer offers an apparent solution. Interactive and reactive, the computer offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. One can be a loner yet never be alone.
-- Sherry Turkle (Life on the Screen)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SherryTurkle #Companionship #Computers #Loneliness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology