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“The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“At a basic level, Facebook, like most other forms of social media, runs on doublespeak: advertising connection but creating isolation; promising happiness but inculcating dread.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-traveled on Instagram; this is why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; this is why, on Twitter, making a righteous political statement has come to seem, for many people, like a political good in itself. This practice is often called “virtue signaling,”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
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