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A little nod to a famous science fiction trope. (Google it.)
“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image.
- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― The Society of the Spectacle
- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― The Society of the Spectacle
“The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above all to the world wars and the violent economic and political shocks they entailed (especially for people with large fortunes). It had little to do with the tranquil process of intersectoral mobility described by Kuznets.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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