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He understood everything she did not say, which at its core was: Don’t let go.
“People are responsible for their own behaviors: every counselor you’d reached out to over the years had hammered this point home again and again. But to see someone lose control and then practically pass out later after the rage drains out of him, with no beers or drinks or anything: just pass out on the couch, emptied of his energy—maybe having seen this so many times made it hard for you to take the right point of view.”
― Devil House
― Devil House
“It’s uncomfortable to assert one’s will against custom and inclination, but that’s what makes it admirable.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“More likely it was boxed in a closet after his death, an enduring embarrassment like a dead minister’s porn stash or an old soldier’s necklace of dried ears or collection of Nazi paraphernalia.”
― Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
― Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
“I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, noncommercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for conviviality. And I’m suggesting that we fiercely protect our human animality against all technologies that actively ignore and disdain the body, the bodies of other beings, and the body of the landscape that we inhabit.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“Our aimless and desperate expressions on these platforms don’t do much for us, but they are hugely lucrative for advertisers and social media companies, since what drives the machine is not the content of information but the rate of engagement.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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