A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”

Topicality is wicked, deeply so. “Fresh” information is a tool of the selfish classes (and be sure there’s a diversity of type) to keep the individual anesthetized, to keep one suspended in a vat of phony immediacy and specious solidarity — the addiction to being informed.

Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing... See more