Category: Sociology
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.
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and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.
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two verbs in one
The verb in question is “to speculate”
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mutually assured distraction: a plea for generative disarmament
What if a re-run of the Cold War, but in addition to stockpiling nukes, we also stockpiled ideologically purified knowledges with a savagely short half-life, as if in some nightmare that even Philip K Dick might have shied away from making into a cautionary tale?
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every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading
Read ’em and weep.