You go to a Japanese restaurant and have a wonderful dish, and the thing to do is take a picture with your phone, put it on Facebook, and see how many likes you get. If you don't share your experiences, they don't become part of the data processing system, and they have no meaning.
Interpretation
Sharing experiences online gives them significance and allows others to engage with them.
Yuval Noah Harari's quote reflects on the modern habit of documenting and sharing experiences, particularly in social media. It suggests that the act of sharing not only enhances the value of our experiences but also integrates them into a larger collective narrative, thereby giving them meaning within the digital age and society at large.
In practice
During a presentation on social media trends, you can use this quote to illustrate how sharing influences human connections.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.
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