<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Crowl</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:culturalengineer@gmail.com">culturalengineer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:57 PM<br>Subject: How Facebook is Undermining Democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Human tribalism is connected to human biology. Intellectual altruism alone cannot overcome our biological tribalism and its limits. It is bound by in group/out group demarcations and may well be a human necessity. (Do we NEED "out groups" to define ourselves?)</div><div><br></div><div>I call this the "Altruism Dilemma" ... a problem that can be addressed.. but not eliminated.</div><div><br></div><div>Techno optimism (the idea that either universal 'connection' or universal 'abundance' will result in universal wisdom or peace) is false. The altruism dilemma must be recognized and addressed. </div><div><br></div><div>From C-Span Book TV:</div><div><b>How Facebook is Undermining Democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan</b><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3WDsjOmEXg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=g3WDsjOmEXg<br></a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3WDsjOmEXg" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div>Not from C-Span TV:</div><div><b>Issues in Scaling Civilization: The Altruism Dilemma</b><br></div><div><a href="http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2012/02/issues-in-scaling-civilization-altruism.html" target="_blank">http://culturalengineer.<wbr>blogspot.com/2012/02/issues-<wbr>in-scaling-civilization-<wbr>altruism.html</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-9050946827884387161gmail_signature"><i><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Tom Crowl</font></b></i><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font><a href="http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://CulturalEngineer.<wbr>blogspot.com</a></div></div></div>
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