Kudos to @theatlantic.com for unlocking the archives and sharing essays about parenting from 1902 and 1933. It threw me for a loop as someone who thought "modern parenting" was a "modern phenomenon." Screens or no screens, someone is always there to make $$ off of anxious parents. - ThreadSky

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spiritualangle.bsky.social • 19 days ago

Kudos to @theatlantic.com for unlocking the archives and sharing essays about parenting from 1902 and 1933. It threw me for a loop as someone who thought "modern parenting" was a "modern phenomenon." Screens or no screens, someone is always there to make $$ off of anxious parents.

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spiritualangle.bsky.social•19 days ago

Freya India is not on the Butterfly, but @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social is, and I discovered India through him. She's become one of my favorite writers about tech, relationships, and mental health, especially when her tips are framed in the context of "relief" instead of "rules."

spiritualangle.bsky.social•19 days ago

@samueldjames.bsky.social posted an excerpt from Cameron Fathauer that links justification by works with the existential crisis that AI is causing. As long as humanity is not judged by their productivity, but by their belovedness by God, AI isn't quite the boogeyman people think.

spiritualangle.bsky.social•19 days ago

@commonweal.bsky.social had a great interview with Scorsese. "We can’t hide what we’re capable of. We have to understand that violence is part of our nature. And I didn’t know how else to do it in my movies, except to show violence as it really is, directly, in all its ugliness."

spiritualangle.bsky.social•19 days ago

Finally, a thoughtful application of Kurt Gödel, and how the solutions to our ethical and social problems cannot be self-referential. They must come externally, which is why Christianity remains such a powerful force for ethical and interpersonal good.

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