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These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world—digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism—makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral living very hard.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
social and experiential.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Who you read—and pay to read—is a budding social signal, a way to broadcast sophistication and align you with a niche intellectual tribe.
Substack’s promise is that the best writing will rise to the top. But, in reality, the best writers—on Substack or anywhere else—aren’t just creators of content; they’re mirrors for aspiration, revealing something... See more
Substack’s promise is that the best writing will rise to the top. But, in reality, the best writers—on Substack or anywhere else—aren’t just creators of content; they’re mirrors for aspiration, revealing something... See more
Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale
Today’s Remixed reject authority, institution, creed, and moral universalism. They value intuition, personal feeling, and experiences.
Tara Isabella Burton • Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
intractable
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
But he and Keller both see a limit to how much longer secularists can demonize the religion of our Western inheritance.