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Scott Rhee
is on page 158 of 368
"The cheerleaders wrote books to spread rationalization memes: we are getting smarter (we're not); it's not as bad as the newspapers portray (it's worse); in the end, maybe all this is just a simulation (it's not); so we are not responsible (we are) and shouldn't worry since we don't really exist (we do)."
— Jan 20, 2025 11:58AM
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Scott Rhee
is on page 234 of 368
"People who lie about the end of the world will keep lying until the world ends."
— Jan 20, 2025 11:59AM
Scott Rhee
is on page 147 of 368
"...Reagan's cowboy hat and boots brought an image of conquest but no frontier to conquer."
— Jan 19, 2025 12:44PM
Scott Rhee
is on page 146 of 368
"Since the decade of Reagan, Americans have been drowning in the syrup of a postimperial immobility: sweet references to a time when Americans could move forward and upward, the 1940s through the 1970s, to distract from the crystallization of an oligarchical social order. The political trick was to swap real social mobility for just the intimation of imperial mobility, which was no longer possible."
— Jan 19, 2025 12:43PM
Scott Rhee
is on page 93 of 368
"On social media, our attention is divided into fragments that are the right size for analysis of us but not by us. Our minds flutter hither and thither, landing nowhere. Attention is no longer about a special state of mind but about eyeballs on screens. Things get our attention, but we no longer pay attention. And then we do not remember. When memory fails, our future has no past, and we are not really present."
— Jan 19, 2025 05:22AM
Scott Rhee
is on page 68 of 368
"Life rebels against all uniformity and leveling; its aim is not sameness, but variety, the restlessness of transcendence, the adventure of novelty and rebellion against the status quo."---Vaclav Havel
— Jan 17, 2025 12:57PM