Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
The 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...
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Byung-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...
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We 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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no editing. no revision. no coming back tomorrow and fixing the awkward parts. this is exactly what came out at exactly this time with exactly this level of coherence (low) and honesty (uncomfortably high).
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The take: “Colonialism brought civilization, infrastructure, and Christianity to Africa. Africa would be nothing without it.”Who said it: Cecil Rhodes, various European historians, and the occasional modern politician...
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