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An inspiration engine for ideas
(This kind of scheme is currently being pioneered in Scandinavia, where governments follow the motto “Protect workers, not jobs.”)
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Culture has changed fundamentally.
It used to be the ballast of our world.
Now it creates chaos.
What if culture is the problem?
Arising in occupied Trinidad was unprecedented public debate about the relationships between clothes and the overlapping precepts around class, gender, race, and empire.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
process of cultural meaning—and decision-making,” he wrote. Pajkovic set out to test Netflix’s impact on personal taste, and to do so designed a set of fake accounts with different archetypal personalities.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Seriality is the dispersal of collectivity into an aggregate of discrete individuals who relate to each other only on the basis of hollow or narcissistic identities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The ability to use one’s own understanding is a challenge, not a given. Luhmann
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.