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Now, as then, we see the abstract values of an industrial economy preying upon the native productivity of land and people.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The taboo had moved from thought to whisper. Forbidden notions were birthed on tongues and swam through the air.
Brockman, who would later connect Epstein to dozens of world-famous scientists, most of them his clients, made it seem as if it were people like him who built this “third culture” – out of their perceptive genius. The cardinal error of such analysis, however, lies in its tendency to mistake structural transformations of global capitalism for zeitgeisty trends in the history of ideas.
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
Evgeny Morozov
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