Dosing Culture, Part One
What we get from cultural reception now is not so much an “experience” or a single coherent “work of art” as an endless series of doses.
Culture Industry
No, actually Max Horkheimer is a super cool guy
The new socialist Left’s purification of Marxism from the bastardizations of Marx’s epigones is often as simplistic and inconsequential as the criticisms of Marx’s supposed inadequacies by those same epigones.
What is a podcast?
The pornography of conversation and the erasure of experience.
I’m Not Wearing a Mask
Why are the esrtwhile hysterical Crybullies of Social Justice Sanctimony now extolling the virtues of stoicism, censuring those that would dare admit that this moment might be a bit—dare I say—“traumatizing”?
The Disaster of Half-Education
The hypostatization of limited knowledge as truth marshaled to cover over the contradictions of capitalism.
A Falling Rate of Intelligence?
The law of the falling rate of intelligence is decreasingly comprehensible, but in studying intelligence one can at least hope not to perpetuate its fall.
What Does America Believe?
Purposeless excitement effused in belief-reality.
