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And if it could convene around it a genuinely interested community of readers, that audience’s reading practices would validate and prove the continued existence of rich, pleasurable, and deeply retrograde ideas about how and why literary culture operates. In short, the magazine and its readers could thumb their collective nose at the powerful-but-not-yet-quite-successfully-totalizing structure of the culture industry around them. However, in order for its mocking critique to be successful, this contrary venture had to operate within—not apart from—the mainstream.
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
muse-jhu-edu.alumniproxy.library.upenn.edu
In the most independent-minded people, the desire not to be told what to think is a positive force. It's not mere skepticism, but an active delight in ideas that subvert the conventional wisdom, the more counterintuitive the better.
How to Think for Yourself
paulgraham.com
Reddit was born in the last years of the "old internet" when free speech meant "freedom from religious conservatives trying to take down porn and sometimes first-person shooters." And so we tried to preserve that ideal.
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