Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
The problem isn’t just that people deliberately lie, spreading disinformation for personal or political gain. It’s that the public sphere has shattered into competing publics, each able to ignore the others. If you’re a vaccine denier, your social-media feed is full of other vaccine deniers, so your beliefs are always affirmed, never challenged.... See more
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Every round of violence is the justified as the sole consequence of the last Palestinian act of violence. The barbarians instigate and the civilized are forced to respond. The starting point of history can always be shifted, such that one side is always instigating, the other always justified in response. Colonialism demands history begin past the
... See moreRather, as the British understand when they speak of their constitution, I mean an architec -ture —not just a legal text but a way of life—that structures and constrains social and legal power, to the end of protecting fundamental values —principles and ideals that reach beyond the compromises of ordinary politics.
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One without a myth “is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human society.”
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
Samuel Johnson said the aim of criticism was to improve opinion into knowledge
Henry Oliver • How to Have Good Taste
corporate actors whose core business model relies on the very disruption they are warning about.
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
Our distractions are shrinking the dimensions of our interiority.
Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms
The temptation of the age of data, again, is to believe that any coherent narrative path that can be charted through the data has a claim to truth.