Jonny Sorgasm

“Life is conceived as a vast supermarket through which one moves with one’s shopping trolley, fetching down ways of life from shelves marked “Existential choices.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

“The picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvellous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“Common-enemy identity politics, when combined with microaggression theory, produces a call-out culture in which almost anything anyone says or does could result in a public shaming.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“George A. Miller, “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information,” Psychological Review 63, 81–97 (1956).”
― Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to tell a compelling story that gets results