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Distraction

The superpower of the 21st century will not be ‘grit’ or ‘determination’ or ‘passion’ but ‘indistractable’.
5 November, 2019/by marius

Masslighting

We are all being masslit. And the extent of our craziness is that we’re half aware of this happening, that we’re being played.
5 October, 2019/by marius

Cash from Chaos

As long as you’ve got capital, which most of us don’t, and the empathy of a psychopath, ditto, you, and your opportunities are golden.
5 September, 2019/by marius

Virtue Signalling

“Virtue signalling” says so much more about the phrase's user than its target.
5 July, 2019/by marius

Work – and why you have to hate it.

Capitalism isn't working... it's getting other people to do it for you.
5 June, 2019/by marius

Shpilkes

You don’t go through a couple of millennia of wandering and persecution without evolving a sixth sense for trouble. The Yiddish word for it is shpilkes (needles), “a state of impatience, agitation, anxiety, or any combination thereof.”
5 May, 2019/by marius

Past Imperfect, Future Tense

Metameleiaphobia. The fear of regret. It doesn’t just drive the mid-life crisis, it misinforms some really appalling decision making.
5 April, 2019/by marius

Can’t you take a joke? Jeez.

Irony is a truth found in the least expected place.
4 March, 2019/by marius

This is Me(me)

“Identity Politics”, and its populist backlash, is taking the West by storm, forcing us all to take sides, imposing a collectivism we would never have imagined.
2 February, 2019/by marius

Post Truth

Value is an act of faith. It is as real, rational, or empirically substantial as gods, demons, fairy tales, vampires and the origin of a denied fart.
10 December, 2018/by marius

I Vant To Be Alone

The problem comes when an entire nation behaves like a moody, depressed, anxiety-ridden teenager.
10 November, 2018/by marius

Ctrl-Z

If we’re rewriting the events we’re uncomfortable with, what we’re replacing them with are just, well, stories.
12 October, 2018/by marius
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