The take: “The Iraq War was a justified and necessary intervention that removed a brutal dictator and spread democracy.”Who said it: The neoconservative movement (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol), and t...
Continue readingRaoul Vaneigem is the other Situationist. Debord got the fame. Vaneigem got the underground reputation. And his book, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967), is actually the better read.Debord described the spectacle....
Continue readingLast year I watched Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, just on a whim because I had nothing better to do. Which is probably the most Rohmerian reason possible to watch a Rohmer film. A casual decision made from a position...
Continue readingJacques 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...
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