January 2012
6 posts
those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
—voltaire
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
Neatly explains why 98% of the corporations in our lives are steaming piles of shit.
Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com →
Cleaning out my Instapaper queue. This is a sort of follow up to the big article on NCAA insanity in the Atlantic from October.
Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012 →
“The awakening is not over, but the heady days of the Arab Spring have come to an end. The counter-revolution, Régis Debray once observed, is revolutionised by the revolution.”
Longish look at the various parties vying for power primarily in Egypt but also across the Middle East. The Arab Spring movements brings to mind Fukuyama’s End of History essay, and I wonder what a...
i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it.
—ray bradbury