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It will be a period in which the technocracy will continue to live well, while the rest of the country stagnates at best and more likely declines.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Living in the legacy of the countercultural strategy of youthfulness, MTD is a perfectly shaped religious construct to inhabit. As good bourgeois, we affirm the moral, wanting our kids to be good. As bohemians, these moral conceptions don’t need to be deep, for if they’re more substantive, or tied to the wisdom of the past, they may block our indiv
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et ra
... See moreAntoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)
“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. The way we see the world is totalizing and unbreakable. We are completely avoiding the problems that diversity and worldwide communication imply. Thus, nobody cares about antique ideas like true or false.”
Nathan Hill • The Nix: A novel
They grapple with the trade-offs between equality and privilege (“I believe in public schooling, but the private school just seems better for my kids”), between convenience and social responsibility (“These disposable diapers are an incredible waste of resources, but they are so easy”), between rebellion and convention (“I know I did plenty of drug
... See moreDavid Brooks • Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
they believe, she writes, “that ordinary morality does not apply to them….In a rotten world, truth can be sacrificed in the name of ‘the People,’ or as a means of targeting ‘Enemies of the People.’ In the struggle for power, anything is permitted.”
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Krugman is pushing policies that require high real income growth, precisely when real income growth is relatively low. He is putting the cart before the horse and asking for some burdensome policies precisely when they would be toughest to bear.