velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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on discernment
The really blunt way to put this would be to say that a bit of cultural elitism might not be a bad thing right now.
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immediate and widespread access
I’m less interested in the budget itself than in the seemingly peripheral dramas
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a community of good fortune
Having in recent years thought a great deal about luck from the other side of the deal, so to speak, these were a strangely revelatory few lines for me.
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woke up this way
Having always thought myself a free-thinker, I realise that I was led, by my desire to at long last belong somewhere, to acquiesce and affirm things that I didn’t believe to be true.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”