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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Celebrity culture has taken a great deal from our country and our world, but the upside — at least in theory — is that it allows people to dream big.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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A lot of things I do in life, I do as an experiment. I mean, I do it out of human interest — just to see who’s loyal, who’s not loyal.
~ Donald Trump via The New York Times
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In Chiang Mai, I was reminded of the superb creativity of young Chinese. These kids can meme with the best of them. My favorite thing about the Chinese internet is the velocity of new words: rùn (to flee) and tangping (to lie flat) have attained mainstream prominence, but there are many others.
~ Dan Wang via his 2023 letter
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The commercial spirit of eastern and southern China may have withered, but even Maoist communism couldn’t suppress it totally. I bet that spirit will live on. Chinese have had 40 years to engage more with the rest of the world, and Xi is not a good enough storyteller to convince everyone to fully turn inwards once more.
~ Dan Wang via his 2023 letter
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Donald Trump gave me hours of his time, often extending our scheduled meetings at Trump Tower as we watched clips of the show together. I discerned that, in many ways, he sees his runs for president and his time in the White House as extensions of his reality show. In our conversations, he seemed engrossed by his image and the minutiae of his TV career, far more than by anything he achieved as leader of the free world.
~ Ramin Setoodeh via The New York Times
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