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Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay

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“Any woman who has ever tried will know without explanation what an unpalatable task it is to dismiss, even when she does not love him, a man who has all the natural and moral qualities she would desire, and only fails in the social. Would-be lovers are not so numerous, even with the best women, that the sacrifice of one can be felt as other than a good thing wasted, in a world where there are few good things.”

“In a chilling 2017 interview, Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, explained those early years like this: The thought process that went into building these applications Facebook being the first of them... was all about: "How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"... And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone like or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you... more likes and comments... It's a social-validation feedback loop... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. Earlier in the interview, he said, "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains." In short, iGen [beginning with those born in 1995] is the first generation that spent (and is now spending) its formative teen years immersed in the giant social and commercial experiment of social media. What could go wrong?”

“I believe men like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma,  Jasprit Bumrah, and Hardik Pandya prove it again and again that the real men deliver when it matters the most! When I say real men, I mean men who have a family, face the challenges of leading a family, and still perform when it matters the most. And I remember that scene of Russell Crowe from the movie 'Gladiator' and it reminds me of real men where he says, “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridias, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix legions..." and the other amazing line from Maximus where he says, "What we do in life echoes in eternity.”