Jacques Ellul was a French sociologist who saw the 20th century more clearly than almost anyone and was almost completely ignored for it. He was a devout Christian, a member of the French Resistance, and one of the mo...
Continue readingStop optimizing.You do not need a better note-taking system(layers to this). You do not need a new productivity method. You do not need the perfect writing app, the ideal daily routine, the optimal time to wake up, th...
Continue readingThe color revolution is not a coup in the old-school sense. It is a coup dressed up as a popular uprising. Youth movements, election monitoring, social media organizing, Western-funded NGOs teaching activists how to p...
Continue readingByung-Chul Han is a Korean German philosopher who writes short, angry books about why modern life feels like a nightmare. He is popular in certain internet circles right now, and for good reason. He put words to a fee...
Continue readingWe have already established that CBE is a nightmare (the queues, the broken ATMs, the teller who clicks keys like he is defusing a bomb, the inexplicable page-ripping they do to poor notebooks). But here is the thing:...
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