Sublime

In this new morality – which sounds like a moral game, or a parody of the idea of morality – moral excellence would reside in being able to successfully exempt yourself from rules you have consented to. You would always be getting out of it – the law you promote and claim to abide by. The Good Person would be replaced by the Impressive Person; and

The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.

“Because if it is true and it is this bad, then everyone knows. If they knew, they’d stop it, right? Surely no one really believes medals are worth more than little girls.”

Then one day in February, someone—not Sam, who was frantically trading—noticed the missing Ripple. Four million dollars’ worth of it had vanished. In fairness, it was not then clear whether it was gone forever. Sam and his traders, using the system Gary had built, were making a quarter of a million trades each day. So much Ripple and Bitcoin was fl