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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 5 months ago

travel is automatically fun

People are rewarded with large financial bonuses and promotions for academic and business trips, and therefore learn to crave them, and to crow about how many they’ve been on. The assumption is that travel is automatically fun, worthwhile, and enviable: a status symbol. But really all that’s happen…

—p.164 Power, Corruption, and Lies The Lost Art of Staying Put (158) by Lucy Ellmann
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7 years, 5 months ago

the leisure travels of the leisured classes

as Teresa Hayter points out in Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls, migration, whether political or economic, is not only a human right, but a necessary response to cruelties inflicted by war, inequality, and climate change. So let the nomads, migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, d…

—p.161 The Lost Art of Staying Put (158) by Lucy Ellmann
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editorial decisions are economic decisions

The point is that there are no editorial decisions that aren’t economic decisions. I’m not going to pretend that the old, newspaper-age “church-state separation” between editorial and advertising was magically exempt from a stultifying capitalist logic; it was mostly just a structure that worked to…

—p.141 Wayne's World (136) by Adam Weinstein
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we have a country full of Waynes

And so I find myself coming to a very dark hinge moment in this essay. Would I like more Waynes? Sure. But I wouldn’t wish this profession on anyone now, not even the bottom-dwelling jingoists of the fashy cyber-right. We are not fucked because we don’t have enough Waynes. We are fucked because we …

—p.140 Wayne's World (136) by Adam Weinstein
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sit down and chew your food

Contrast Wayne’s legacy with the Trumpworthy approach to Today’s Content. In today’s mediasphere, headlines are crafted not merely to grab eyeballs but to jerk knees and get share-buttons clicked.

And somehow, all the twitching and the Pavlovian sharing is supposed to create a viable personal br…

—p.138 Wayne's World (136) by Adam Weinstein