Steve Bannon is not a warrior for the working man. He’s a salesman in battle gear, with a podcast mic and a passport full of donor meetings. He doesn’t live among the people — he studies them, scripts their anger, then sells it back to them. He’s rebranded himself so many times — naval officer, investment banker, Hollywood producer, political strategist — you’d think he was running a hedge fund in identity.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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Wishing everyone a happy Social Media Managers Day.
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Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
~ Janet Malcolm
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[Twitter] @gtdguy
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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If the syllabus had simply gone away, educators could mourn its loss and move on. Instead, the document persists as the bloated corpse of what it used to be, and also as a ghost haunting the distributed, corporate information systems that have slowly replaced it.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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“The Gen X Career Meltdown:” What Happens When Your Job Becomes Obsolete?
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