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the Innovation Economy

A mix of big corporations and investor-backed startup enterprises gathers around the shared strategic value of innovation, operating in an environment rich with public resources. The triumphant arc is chronicled in the rapid development of some new product and said to be personified by a Zuckerberg…

—p.46 No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler The People’s Republic of Zuckerstan (43) by John Summers
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Manichaeism

since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting

—p.41 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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recondite

Moving beyond these recondite readings from the Romney common-touch barometer

—p.299 Follow the Money: The Washington Post's Pageant of Folly (291) by Chris Lehmann
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rarefied

Anastasia recognizes that she's destined to abandon her ordinary, middle-class life in favor of the rarefied veal pen of the modern power elite.

—p.164 Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism (161) by Heather Havrilesky
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hermetic

The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.

—p.30 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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