Society
Andy Claremont and
Society
Sociologists bemoaned the death of the third place in American Life. Then companies shifted to remote work, and we got rid of second places. We just live in our first and only places now, in our sweat pants.
Eugene Weix.comI don't think it's healthy for people or for liberal democracy to interact with each other primarily through disembodied social media, especially the way it's architected today.
The size of the effect is astounding. Cross-class friendships are a better predictor of upward mobility than school quality, job availability, community cohesion or family structure. If these results are true, then we have largely ignored a powerful way to help people realise the American dream.
David Brooks • Why rich friends are so important to success
But we can build the kind of world where they don’t have to suffer because of the vagaries of fate, where we decide as a society that people shouldn’t be defined by those things that the individual can’t control, that their parents can’t control, that nobody can control.
Freddie deBoer • Preemies, Genes, Meritocracy, and the Left
The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that
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