We’re now in the phase of late empire where a semi truck of stupid is rushing down the highway at one hundred miles per hour and anyone with a half a brain is a deer, glued to their spot in its path, waiting for it to run them over. Continue reading Late Empire on the Brink of Full Stupid
Our post-reality moment is easy to see in political discourse and action, though not limited to that hyperbolic echo chamber of political preservation denuded into reductive soundbites. It’s everywhere. It drives our national conversation. It’s embedded in our popular culture. Continue reading Post-Reality Everywhere
Does money measure everything? Is it the arbiter of success, genius, some innate quality that defines self-worth? Is money worship itself a uniquely American phenomenon? I’m curious because I’ve recently heard someone call Elon Musk the smartest person alive. An idea that never occurred to me because it’s the kind of assertion that would elicit … Continue reading Money
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