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Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
https://www.nytimes.com/by/emma-goldbergnytimes.com
But they’re not alone — the internet has democratized the ability to create new reality bubbles and distort old ones. We’re just beginning to grapple with the consequences of this seismic cultural shift.
Aaron Z. Lewis • You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
For the modern world, questions about the nature of humanity would be viewed on par with the struggle among the Lilliputians about the correct way to cut open an egg. Hobbes, the first truly modern philosopher, boasted of how he deserted and ran away from fighting in a religious war; a cowardly life had become preferable to a heroic but meaningless... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.
Rob Henderson • Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols
He’s more of a robot than the computational algorithms he owns.