Thought Provoking Reads
Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?
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Modern life leads us nowhere
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The most basic lesson of social change is that we will not dismantle power by collaborating with it, and yet we need to learn it again and again.
Alice Bolin • Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging. That’s why No-Face has no face: he is desire itself, the appetite to become, the emptiness that consumes while wishing it were someone... See more
People are so busy just trying to get back to zero, or trying to build up a buffer against disaster, or trying to enjoy themselves, because there’s so little else to count on—three endeavors that could contain the vast majority of human effort until our depleted planet finally ends it all. And, while we do this—because we do this—the honest avenues
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