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The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
nytimes.com
Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
He had really become, at 32 or 33, the ruined middle-aged man that he already seemed on the cusp of becoming in youth.
n+1 • The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (Kindle Single) (Kindle Singles Book 4)
Wallace’s cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Both in urban and psychological space, Schulman witnessed “the replacement of complex realities with simplistic ones,” a process leading to a kind of social monoculture.