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high-inequality contexts make contentment even harder.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
The internet was dramatically increasing our ability to know about things, while our ability to change things stayed the same, or possibly shrank right in front of us. I had started to feel that the internet would only ever induce this cycle of heartbreak and hardening—a hyper-engagement that would make less sense every day
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The postindustrial era has concentrated political and economic power in just a few hands and denied ordinary people control of their own lives. Overwhelmed by unfathomably large forces, Americans can no longer think and act as fellow citizens. We look for answers in private panaceas, fixed ideas, group identities, dreams of the future and the past,
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