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The high rates of poverty and inequality in the US actually strengthen the right wing populist message. Seeing the extent of poverty and homelessness reinforces the anxiety felt by working class households with falling living standards. Without a social safety net, they know that if they lose their jobs, or see a substantial fall in their earnings, there may be no coming back.
Why Trump Won - Grace Blakeley
Substack
The advent of writing (both a cause and a consequence of greater socio-political complexity) was rocket fuel for this new mode of memetic evolution as it dramatically enhanced the “critical self-distancing element of disembedded reflection”.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
Within both life and the technium, the thickening of interconnections at one level weaves the new level of organization above it.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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