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taboo—our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are.
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong
Pamela Gordontheguardian.com
For years, factual disputes were settled by the Britannica in the living room. Now, they’re settled by instant Google searches, most of which lead to Wikipedia. Open the Britannica in your grandparents’ living room and you’ll find outdated facts and figures. Wikipedia, though, is always evolving. The shift from Britannica to Wikipedia is indicative... See more
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
Little Journeys Vol. 13: Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard: John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
online-literature.com
The Great Diminishment has several causes. (The internet, social media, apathy, etc., all play a role. I’ve written more about how “everyone is numbing out.”) But a big cause is what I’ll call the “venture capitalization” of culture, where as much cost is squeezed out of every nook and cranny as possible, while prices remain the same or higher. You... See more
Catherine Shannon • The Great Diminishment
Nearly a century later, Bernard Harcourt laments the loss of a more demanding approach to the threats of big data in his critique of neoliberalism’s drive to turn as much of life as possible into the type of information that can be used to calculate, predict, and pin down: “Quantifiable material interests took precedence over spirituality,
... See moreLowry Pressly • The Right to Oblivion
This is when the measure itself becomes the end.