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To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. Aristotle

The future has many names. For the week, it’s unattainable. For the fearful, it’s unknown. For the bold, it is ideal. Victor Hugo

Aware and educated people now are withdrawing from cellphone use and getting back to pre-2005 connectivity and organic socialization.

Very soon, there will be so much technology to facilitate the retraction from technology.

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Pokeman daily activity surpassed Tinder daily activity, and it is estimated to surpass Twitter daily activity soon.

Is this the symbolic decline of intellectuality?!
Is this what technology is all about?!
Is this how empty lives are?!
Is there no limit to the stupidity of applications?!
First Candy Crush which is valued at $8.6 Billion (about Chrysler’s value)
then Snap Chat which is a disgrace to the art of photography, and antithesis of mindfulness,
and now this! THIS! What is THIS?!

“Most people over estimate what they can accomplish in a year, and underestimate what they can accomplish in a decade” Tony Robins

The end of the Republican Party taking place right now should be paralleled by the end of the Democratic Party. A 4 party alternative should emerge (from left to right):
– liberal socialist
– progressive democrats
– libertarian moderates
– conservatives

Today, Elon Musk tweets are more important than Apple keynote presentations.

GM founded 1908 … Worth $49.6B
Chrysler founded 1925 … Worth $10B
Ford founded 1903 … Worth $54.2B

Tesla founded 2003 … Worth $44B !!!

The only country who is practicing the second amendment true to its founding meaning is Lebanon, and the USA really doesn’t like it.

“To know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot is a profound kind of wisdom.”

Excerpt From: Rosenzweig, Phil. “Left Brain, Right Stuff.” iBooks.
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It is in the absence, that artists, authors, and scientists made their best works. In today’s social media age, teenagers are growing up experiencing no absence ever. They sleep and their phones in their hands.

The Human Mind Is Naturally Prone To the Following Egocentric Tendencies:
1. egocentric memory (the natural tendency to “forget” evidence and information which does not support our thinking and to “remember” evidence and information which does)
2. egocentric myopia (the natural tendency to think in an absolutist way within an overly narrow point of view)
3. egocentric infallibility (the natural tendency to think that our beliefs are true because we believe them)
4. egocentric righteousness (the natural tendency to feel superior in the light of our confidence that we are in the possession of THE TRUTH)
5. egocentric hypocrisy (the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what we profess to believe and the actual beliefs our behavior imply, or inconsistencies between the standards to which we hold ourselves and those to which we expect others to adhere)
6. egocentric oversimplification (the natural tendency to ignore real and important complexities in the world in favor of simplistic notions when consideration of those complexities would require us to modify our beliefs or values)
7. egocentric blindness (the natural tendency not to notice facts or evidence which contradict our favored beliefs or values) 
8. egocentric immediacy (the natural tendency to over-generalize immediate feelings and experiences–so that when one event in our life is highly favorable or unfavorable, all of life seems favorable or unfavorable as well)
9. egocentric absurdity (the natural tendency to fail to notice thinking which has “absurd” consequences, when noticing them would force us to rethink our position)
Taken from The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind