Sublime

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of…

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I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the self-

Normal people carried out their lives in them with a density and individuality that no one trip could ever encompass.

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.

a total disruption of the pieces of art and culture that shaped me.

Gentrification is a form of…

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If anything, mass culture lately appears more aesthetically homogenous than ever.

travel redistribution.”

And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.