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- 21 to have autonomy without interdependency leads to isolation or narcissism. Do you have interdependency with no autonomy stunts are psychological growth. Healthy people live in social groups that have learned to balance or better marry these two imperatives.

• 27 speech created a way of actively misrepresenting reality to others 
• 28 television "programming" refer to the programmability not the channel but of the viewer. A blue jeans commercial promising a sexier life doesn't work on someone already in a satisfying relationship. It is aimed at the person sitting alone on the couch. Television culture further foster the loneliness by substituting brand imagery for human contact. 
• 39 but each extension of our social reality into a new medium requires that we make a conscious effort to bring our humanity along with us. We must protect our social human organism from the very things we have created. 
• 63 behavioral design theory holds that people don't change their behaviors because of shifts in their attitudes and opinions. On the contrary, people change their attitudes to match their behaviors.
• 135 but if I see this ambiguity and the ability to embrace it that characterizes the collectively felt human experience. Does God exist? Do we have in any purpose? Is love real? These are not simple yes or no questions.
• 137 art, at its past, mines the paradoxes that make humans human. It celebrates our ability to embrace ambiguity and to experience this sustain, and resolve state as pleasurable, or at least significant. 
• 149 shame does have a social function. Seeming those who deviate from the norm helps galvanize unity among the group and enforces adherence to the rules. And more pro-social hands the same shaming tactics can be used by schools to stigmatize bullying or by environmentalist to punish polluters. The problem is that people and institutions behave destructively are not so vulnerable to shame. Police are proud of their conquests, and corporations experience no emotions.
• 150 we exchange the vertigo of the uncanny valley for the exhilaration of all. The state of all may be the pinnacle of human experience. It's what lies beyond the paradox. If humans unique job in nature is to be conscious, but more human thing can we do than flow are observing minds? Beholding that panoramic view my mountaintop, witnessing the birth of a child, staring into a starry sky, or standing with thousands of others in March or celebration, all dissolve the sense of self as separate and distinct.
• 151 for a moment, I overwhelms the senses and wipes the mind clean, making it more open to new input. This helps a person take in new information, but also makes them more vulnerable to manipulation. And once burned by someone manipulating a year twice shy to open ourselves to it again. We become jaded and cynical as a defense against being wonderstruck.
• 203 if can summon enough of our own humanity to really listen, we'll find that most of our counterparts are not truly violent or irredeemally mean spirited. Understanding their fears and then working together toward our common goals is far more constructive than pretending that entire populations have no humanity at all. This means country is far back into their emotional logic as it takes to find something we can identify with, the valid feelings they hold, before they are transformed into their more destructive expressions. 
• 208 simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.