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'We are in the midst of a new wave of strong nation-state competition which runs directly against the urgent need to establish a new mode of relating to our environs, a radical politico-economic change called by Peter Sloterdijk “the domestication of the wild animal Culture.” Until now, each culture has disciplined/educated its own members and guaranteed civic peace among them, but the relationship between different cultures and states has remained permanently under the shadow of potential war, with each epoch of peace nothing more than a temporary armistice. The entire ethic of a state culminates in the highest act of heroism, the readiness to sacrifice one’s life for one’s nation-state, which means that the wild barbarian relations between states serve as the foundation of the ethical life within a state. It is in the interest of our survival to change such ethics – how?'

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"I gave up my smartphone 6 years ago because I concluded the conveniences it offered came at cost of too much of my attention, freedom, and privacy. My ability to focus was just gone, and this magic device was not making me happy or productive anymore.

Within a year, my hyper-focus abilities I remember having as a teen starting flowing back. In the last 5 years I have done the best work of my career, including creating the first fully deterministic Linux distribution, building a community around it, helping start 3 companies, learned endless new skills.

I am not reachable or able to reach the internet every second of every day, and in the modern world that sounds scary. Yet I have a family, an active social life, frequently travel, meet new people every week, co-running two companies while actively developing new tech with daily progress, etc.

All of those things were -accelerated- by me being intentionally offline whenever I am not at a desk."

"The 'normal' process of our history runs towards different forms of final catastrophe: self-destruction through ecological collapse, through the uncontrolled reign of artificial intelligence, through global wars—these endpoints of our history are the true morbid phenomena. In such a predicament, we should pull the emergency brake on our historical process, or, to quote Walter Benjamin from his 'Theses on History': 'Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake.'"

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Slavoj Žižek talks Spider-Man, Olivia Wilde's sex appeal, Trump's liberal fascism; and his new documentary The Pervert's Guide to Utopias.

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