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"Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx" <[log in to unmask]>
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The key will be what it has always been at the level of human psychosocial health, and that is attending to the core need, the need each person has for relational value (being known and valued by important others).
 
It is one of the ways we are most unlike robots 😊 

-----Original Message-----
From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Mark Stahlman
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 7:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Yuval Harari: It's All Going to Be Psychological!! (via CBS News)

Gregg:

Excellent!  So how does the ToK/Garden model help us to deal with a world in which most people do *not* have jobs (i.e. robots "take over"  
work) and *nothing* can be "forgotten" (i.e. that's what computers do, remember everything) -- which is to say, a world utterly unlike the one in which we now live . . . ??

Mark

Quoting "Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Thanks for sharing this, Mark.
>
> I think he makes a lot of good points.
>
> I agree that we need a new approach to education, knowledge and 
> fostering psychological health.
>
> The whole point of the ToK/Garden model is how to cultivate ourselves 
> for the future that we are facing.
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
> From: tree of knowledge system discussion 
> <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Mark Stahlman
> Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 9:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Yuval Harari: It's All Going to Be Psychological!! (via CBS 
> News)
>
>
> DLers:
>
> This AM, Yuval Harari appeared on CBS News, continuing his book-tour 
> for "21 Lessons for the 21st Century."
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Le
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> The clip is well worth reviewing --
>
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>
> His comments are what has now become standard-fare. Not surprising, 
> since he's a "historian" and not a "futurist," he mistakenly said, "No 
> one knows the future."  That, is, of course a silly thing to say.  
> "Knowing" isn't the point.  Anticipating, however, is the point and, 
> as it turns out, some people are pretty good at doing that.  He's 
> apparently not one of them.
>
> He compounds his errors by, once again repeating what others are 
> saying, "Technology isn't deterministic . . . Radio created both Nazi 
> Germany and Soviet Russia . . . it's all a matter of what we do with 
> the technology."  This also silly.  "Determinism" refers to
> *efficient* (or what we'd rather call *kinetic* cause) and it has 
> nothing to do with the action of technology on society.  And, of 
> course, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were, in structural terms, 
> actually quite alike.
>
> In this, Harari is repeating what his audience wants to hear: It's all 
> a matter of choice.  No, not really.  Technology, as McLuhan told us 
> in 1964, "shapes our behaviors and attitudes."  That is because 
> "behaviors and attitudes" are *forms* which come about as a result of 
> Culture -- which, in turn, is "structured" by the technologies it 
> uses.  Harari has committed the typical mistake of "social 
> constructionists," who mistakenly think that Culture can be whatever 
> we want it to be.  That has never been the case.  We, at the Center, 
> on the other hand, are "technological constructivists."
>
> He is, however, clear that what we are facing is a massive 
> psychological problem.  He is also correct that today's schools aren't 
> doing anything to address this.  He is, however, wrong that the answer 
> is "resilience" and had to admit that he must meditate 2 hour every 
> day to keep his own balance.  That approach, like much of what he 
> says, is just the same-old TELEVISION answer -- or, what McLuhan 
> called the "Inner Trip" into which TV "flips" (as described in the 
> 1988 "Laws of Media.")
>
> There is no hint in what I've read by Harari that he understands any 
> of this.  The shift from TELEVISION Fantasy to DIGITAL Memory doesn't 
> seem to have occured to him.  Perhaps someone will help him with a 
> clue along the way . . . <g>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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