These are not normal times. Few people in recent years can have escaped the feeling that strange and unprecedented things are happening.
Read More...These are not normal times. Few people in recent years can have escaped the feeling that strange and unprecedented things are happening.
Read More...… barbarians are predatory, destructive, and nomadic: they consume and exploit, but don’t produce. There is no need for a Journal of Barbarian Studies. Just look around: their realm is the entirety of the public culture.
Read More...In the past, people displayed their membership of the upper class with their material accoutrements. But today, luxury goods are more affordable than before… (the affluent) have come up with a clever solution. The affluent have decoupled social status from goods, and re-attached it to beliefs.
Read More...Where are the happy socialists? The socialists I spot are either snarling with anger or shrieking with hubris. In fact, they seem intent on pursuing unhappiness as their misguided dictums controvert nature — human and physical. It’s simply hard to be sanguine when going against nature.
Read More...The sceptical position on manners suggests that we shouldn’t care about mere forms of speech, as what matters is substance. On the contrary, being careful to put others at ease, to show them that you consider them an equal, and that you value their time, is deeply substantial.
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