Sublime

He told me bluntly that instead of acknowledging our limitations and trying to live within them, we have—en masse—fallen for an enormous delusion.

‘direct response’,

As Gilroy-Ware puts it, “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.”

What tech, designed for what purposes, in whose interests?

We could have listened to the evidence that purely practicing individual restraint—in an unchanged environment—rarely works

sanest guide through the turbulence and hatred of human politics is a humorous and self-deprecating pessimism.

“Less certainty. More inquiry.”

Thus a neo-liberal meritocracy leads to its own point of departure: universal egotism.