September 30, 2024
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Other Voices
Adam Curits
Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer:
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.
OK, how do you go about getting at that truth? You want to tell the truth. You want to be a writer. So what do you do?
You write.
Honestly, why do people ask that question? Does anybody ever
September 8, 2024
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Adam Curits
Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression:
What happened from the early 1970s on was a shift, which said self-expression is the new politics. Self-expression is the new way of challenging the bad things in the world. But it can’t, because the whole world is actually based upon self-expression.
If you want to make the world a better place, you have to start with where power
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August 6, 2024
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M. E. Rothwell
Social Network
All Hail the Cloud:
For a long time I believed unquestioningly the standard critique of our times. It’s the phones. It’s the algorithm. It’s our base narcissism. That our obsession with recording every fleeting moment of our lives betrayed a deeper malaise. We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of
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June 27, 2024
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Red Hand Files
Nick Cave
Red Hand Files: #Issue 280:
I know that on a fundamental level they are on their own path and they are not in the business of shaping their lives, artistic or otherwise, in order to please or make others feel better. They are fully and acutely authentic, regardless of my feelings, or the feelings of anyone else and I find this deeply reassuring in a world that so often feels de
