Saved by Brian Sholis
Opinion | If I Get Canceled, Let Them Eat Me Alive (Published 2022)
The few people who would reject me solely because I cannot achieve media-based perfection are (and I say this respectfully) shallow, soulless morons.
Martha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Extrapolating this into the realm of strangers, I worry that if we let our real-life interactions be corralled by our filter bubbles and branded identities, we are also running the risk of never being surprised, challenged, or changed—never seeing anything outside of ourselves, including our own privilege.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Keatsian endeavor has never been popular, but is particularly unfashionable today. Religious fundamentalists reject it on the grounds that revelation and commitment are needed to orient oneself in the world. The amorality of a poet who is a “thoroughfare for all thoughts” risks heresy or destabilization. Tell me where you stand, where your loya... See more
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Those who believe that straight white men have a mandate to burn the rest of us as fuel, to sell us for parts, to mow us down and climb up the pile, never truly conceded that war. They have been biding their time, and this is their last great gambit. But I live in the America that won—the America with art and empathy and a free press and fierce pro
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