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“This business of… being a writer is ultimately about asking yourself, ‘How alive am I willing to be?’” —ANNE LAMOTT
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” The critic and novelist Namwali Serpell told me that the quotation appeals to her in this moment, even though Žižek’s translation is slightly unfaithful to the original. The phrase “now is the time of monsters,” Serpell said, “allows us to think about the... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
“Inside,” Reviewed: Bo Burnham’s Virtuosic Portrait of a Mediated Mind
newyorker.com
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
on Halloween
All That Backlash? Jerrod Carmichael Saw It Coming.
slate.com
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
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bangers and on capitalism
