Culture & Society
thots, paragraphs, pieces, diatribes, social Darwinism; societal costs of dysfunctional reaction(s) to overwhelming change
Culture & Society
Olivia Nuzzi “A politicians greatest trick is convincing U he isn’t one. “
And “A politician is anyone who wants your love more than anything else, and by doing so demonstrates that he can’t love himself. “
“Stealing Fire” (2017), Kotler & Wheal: Attributed to W.B.Yeats: “The world is full of MAGIC things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
This is another version of the observation that there is absolutely nothing we can do w our technology today that hasn’t always been possible but unknown. Which raises the inevitable Q: What else is
... See more“You may have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is that incompetent people don’t have the skills to recognize their own incompetence.”, writes David Brooks, NYT, Jan 30, 2025: “The 6 Rules Of Stupidity”
2025 Books Read: Minsoo Kang, “The Melacholy of Untold Hustory,” Harper Collin’s, 2024; via NO Public Library
Sounds like a barn-burner of a premise, color me intrigued