Holly Brockwell

Niceness emerged from the relentlessly public character of modern life—a response to the fear that new communication technologies had made it possible for anyone to tear your reputation to shreds. Niceness was the thin crust atop this hatred. It was toxic in the first place because it was inauthentic and transactional and dominated our relationship... See more

Trow explains that television has two abilities:

to do a very complex kind of work, involving electrons, and then to cover the coldness of that with a hateful familiarity. Why hateful? Because it hasn’t anything to do with a human being as a human being is strong. It has to do with a human being as a human being is weak and willing to be fooled: the

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The desire for a drug can be very strong: Does the strength of the desire make it an authentic love? Does it make it nourishing? The people angry at the critic who says an entertainment is not art are not angry at his elitism. They are angry at being reminded that the choice does not offer happiness or power but a brief distraction from our neglect... See more

the obvious aim of the then newly christened Meta to stake an ownership claim not only over users’ “true identities” but over all the things that populate their sensoria, replacing physical reality with virtual realities for which we would need a cascading array of subscriptions to navigate the ever-proliferating levels of differential access.

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

– Mexican proverb

When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done

Eventually people can be educated, but what you have to do is find a way give them the experience, to put them in the situation. Sometimes this can only happen by making real the thing you are describing, but sometimes by dint of clever artifice you can simulate it.