Anything but the loudest, brightest, most blunt-force sensory experience is not going to work.
All this adds up to the impression that impressions are hard to come by.
The New New Reading Environment
My point here isn’t that “selling out” is OK, but that the binary itself proved unsustainable.
Gen X Weighs In
Introduction
For better or worse, dead people do rule
For better or worse, dead people do rule. They rule because we love them, and they rule because, like many people over 65 today, they were late to retire and reluctant to surrender their reign.
Shittiness is a big tent — and the tent is falling apart.
Why Is Everything So Ugly?
After Zahedi called himself the reincarnation of Kafka, an audience member yelled, “This is bullshit!”
You’re Wasting My Time, I Love You
If you saw him in the windows, or if there was a nondescript sedan in the driveway, the Buffett Game Dollar was yours.
Buffettspotting
March 7, 2022
“Putin’s on Our Side!”
Transcript of an interrogation
Yes! I’m threatening you! I’m threatening you with physical violence!
The saints! Spending their money on books!
Literary Mercenaries, Ha Ha Ha
What will the long-term political consequences of the vaccine mandates be?
Vax 2 the Max
Billionaire Follies
Bezos as space conqueror, Gates as global vaccinator
As weirdos who have been appointed to positions of great social power and influence by nothing more than the accident of their wealth, billionaires cannot be trusted to fix the world’s problems. No matter how much of their money they want to give away, things won’t begin to improve until we take it from them. Not because we need it, but because they can’t be trusted to handle it without destroying the collective preconditions of common existence.
Where is this young man going to dinner?!
