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It’s not any horsing around like you see in the movies, with twirling or flipping bottles—it’s more of a pure dervishness that has on occasion made a fool of me as I called for a drink that was already sitting up straight right under my face.

Often enough, talk of disruption is a theodicy of hypercapitalism. Disruption is newness for people who are scared of genuine newness.

Thiel recognizes in Girard’s claim precisely the kind of catechism of faith that Silicon Valley has built so much of its success on

McLuhan’s books are painful, not because his jokes are overly recondite, but because they mistake chumminess and condescension for making common cause with their audience

who always confessed he never could see the point of any 'scabrous anecdote'