Moment 3 - John Vincent On How To Live A More Present Life

Uh In a world where As you said, everything is designed to make us feel significant, right? The sort of fundamental design of social media is to reinforce us in some way that we are what we said was smart or funny or you know, sharing. What In your perspective are the dangers of our kids and your kids growing up in this sort of

Social media world. Well, I think it's like it's the old phrase, isn't it? If you put a a lobster or frog even into boiling water it will jump out. But if you slowly boil it then it doesn't realise it's being boiled. And I think our kids are being slowly boiled. And they don't realise it. And I went to a conference the other day where they were talking about how

Babies are going to be chipped. And that mothers and fathers will be allowed to have lower taxes and lower insurance if they allow their babies to be tracked from a health perspective because of course it will reduce the NHS bill and of course it will reduce the policing bill if we know where everyone is. And I I think we all have to recognize the fact that we will be sold in very what seem to be very rational terms. very economically viable terms to track our own health, to accept being monitored.

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