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Ross Douthat recently wrote (very dramatically too) about the evolutionary bottleneck forming that is “killing off” so many parts of our culture so fast, as only select items are allowed through. “Except,” he continued, “among people who are deliberate and self-conscious and a little bit fanatical about ensuring that the things they love are carrie... See more
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resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and our cultural exhaustion are working together, defending decadence and closing off escape.
Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Which brings us back to the question of traditionalism and dynamism, and their potential interaction: if you have had a cultural revolution that cleared too much ground, razed too many bastions and led to a kind of cultural debasement and forgetting, you probably need to go backward, or least turn that way for recollection, before you can hope to g... See more
Ross Douthat • The fall of the intellectual
For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality can be a useful guide to much of anything is risible, particularly since so many white evangelicals from 2016 forward chose to throw in their lot with a solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts, and sneers. Yet Lewis’s life suggests that religiously inspire
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