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Of course, I have tried to explain what I meant by that, but afterwards I have invariably felt that there was more to be said than I had been able to say. Now I would like to attempt a better explanation.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Effective altruism is a political gift to the wealthy, packaged absolution that gives them moral permission to extract as much as they want. It is also perilously close to the edge of the cliff of fascism.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
The arrival of large globally networked social media platforms powered by AI, which is the context in which 21st-century humans do most of our reading, has further fractured the more than 600-year-long intimate relationship between the humanist reader and the author, to the point where it is becoming difficult to speak about the reader’s experience of a text independent of the social media response, which is being consistently gamed by the hidden hands of political operatives, large corporations, intelligence agencies, and other arms of the state.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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