How 4chan became the home of the elite reader
Now, I’m not so naive as to think that there was some lost golden age of reading. Probably at every moment in reading’s history, reading has been to a great extent the preserve of nerds and eggheads — it’s, almost by definition, what you do when you’re off on your own, when you don’t have anybody who at that moment wants to hang out with you. But... See more
Curator
Gurri is no fan of elites or of centralized authority, but he notes a constructive feature of the pre-digital era: a single “mass audience,” all consuming the same content, as if they were all looking into the same gigantic mirror at the reflection of their own society. In a comment to Vox that recalls the first post-Babel diaspora, he said: " The... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It is around that time I discovered the “literary canon”, an exclusive benchmark for the high-culture works of art cherished most by the mostly-western, mostly-male, mostly-white world. I discovered that the hundreds of books recognised as being a part of this exclusive club are referred to as “classics”. Mostly complex, incomprehensible
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