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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The past hundred years a canon that defined modernity, post-modernity, and our world was established, celebrated, illuminated, and constantly revised by critics and appreciators who used the pen to make their case. They’re the ones who helped establish cultural significance. They’re the ones who remind us to marvel not at demographics, but at indiv... See more
The prestige recession
Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Mario Gabrielethegeneralist.substack.com
It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
when the going gets tough, Americans build new civic institutions .