Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Costco
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Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea
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In short, the technologies through which we see the public shape what we think the public is. And that, in turn, shapes how we behave politically and how we orient ourselves. We may end up believing - in a highly specific way - in things that we know we are ‘supposed’ to believe, given that we are Republicans or Democrats, Conservative or Labour... See more
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
Childhood and school & learning
On school, growing up, and agency
Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
nytimes.com
A market had opened up for illiberal transgressions, no matter how banal and empty. According to Marx, cultural inertia accelerated this development. “We see how this cultural stagnation has political consequences,” he writes, adding that the MAGA movement’s “rejection of liberal values” had been taking shape in a reactionary subculture that seized on a vacuum in the mainstream. “This long-term project to rebrand conservatism as cool and transgressive succeeded precisely because we removed cultural invention as a potential countervailing force.”
rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell
