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He suggested that the illusion of freedom—the idea that every entrepreneur is a master of their own desire—is dangerous. “Founders are the worst,” he said. “There’s a Randian—I must be the John Galt—feeling. You can be as liberated as you want, but there’s a web of connectivity, and they forget.”
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
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D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
In the 1970s and much of the 1980s, feminist scholars looked closely at women’s roles in the family and workforce and at social expectations that women be feminine, submissive, and beautiful, if not sexually available and pornographic. Marxist ideas of women as a subordinated class that exists to support men (who, in turn, support capitalism) aboun
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Regulate the Web: Free expression, harmful speech, and the Future of the Internet
docs.google.comThe rugged individualist’s nightmare is being dominated; the Romantic individualist’s great fear is of enforced conformity—of being shut down and stifled, of losing their voice.