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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 Power, Corruption, and Lies Wayne's World (136) by Adam Weinstein
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the Marxism of the master class

Calhoun is an analog to Marx, in other words, in the same way that public choice theory is an analog to the Marxist theory of the state. In the name of freedom, public choice theory would shackle the ninety-nine percent of us who exist in the lower orders of neoliberalism. Public choice theory is t…

—p.111 The Master Class on the Make (104) by Andrew Hartman
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contributing to her own obsolescence

[...] With this in mind, and when I worry over the publications, labels, and artists who have (reluctantly or otherwise) embraced Spotify, I can’t help but think of that airport restaurant server who teaches you how to use the iPad, thereby contributing to her own obsolescence. Why is the music pre…

—p.95 The Problem with Muzak (88) by Liz Pelly