Name: 7 Books You Need To Read
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books are probably my favorite topic to talk about,

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So she's completely obsessed with social media and

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Emmy's moral compass becomes more skewed and it's intense.

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So this year I focused a lot of my attention on the

importance of being more critical and mindful about my

I loved Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

And of course the documentary, The Social Dilemma,

if you have not seen that documentary yet it's on Netflix

but I was listening to an interview with Tristan Harris and

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

So this book was published in 1985 and he was talking about

the negative effects of television and how it was morphing,

the public's ability to critically think and to be able to

Honestly, if Postman was concerned in the eighties,

he would probably be even more disappointed in us to see how

we have managed to unfold into this messy pool

And as much as I love to make videos and learn from videos,

it's not the same as reading a book and Postman goes

to explain history of the age of topography,

which is the era when books were the only source to get

ideas and like a full, comprehensive way.

I feel like books are an excellent container for information

And the issue with TV and the internet is that it's created

an abundance of information, but they're all scattered.

And de-contextualized, they're just bits and pieces.

And it's hard for us to connect everything all together.

But no, Postman describes another dystopia

that we've managed to sink ourselves into,

which is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

So this is a dystopia where the people are living in excess.

constantly laughing and just not thinking.

where no one cares that they're only focusing

No one cares that they're being surveillanced and

And he's implying that that is the world that we're living

But I can go on about this book and it is actually

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7 Books You Need To Read

perspective

constantly

intense

critical