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You Cannot Win a Culture War
Goya
I remember reading Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent when I was in college. I felt like I had learned a clandestine secret about the way the world “really” works.
Chomsky demonstrates the “will” of the American empire by showing...
America Is Coolness
There is a performative contradiction at the very heart of the American psyche. It functions best when not examined. If it’s ever brought to consciousness, it’s usually because it’s either not working or suddenly stops working for you. Once...
Technology Is Over
Highly scientific chart I drew showing the difference between an infinite exponential chart (which leads to the AI singularity) and a sigmoidal chart, which levels out at some unknown point in the future.
When I was a kid, I would get off...
Batman of the Philosophy Department
Imagine a vigilante who stalked philosophers who had concluded, in some form or another, that non-being was preferable to being. That life was absurd, or everything was about power, or it’s impossible to justify the suffering of existence,...
The Uni-Context Is Not New
The uni-context neatly explains a few different things: the attention economy, why everything is so flat and ugly, why all architecture looks the same, why we’re so anxious about all the horrible stuff we see online.
I like the uni-context...
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Cajun Catholic. Southern Gothic. Studied philosophy, worked in Silicon Valley, now I'm back in Louisiana. Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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