Let me tell you a story about a 20-year-old who had everything that modern internet fame can give a person. He had a club in Miami Beach. He had a face that thousands of young men wanted to copy. He had an audience that grew by the week. He had legal trouble, yes. He had controversy, absolutely. But he had something else too: momentum.
Then several things happened. None of them went the way he...
For much of the 20th century, the grammar of status was written in leather, steel, and silk. The luxury watch on a wrist, the handbag dangling from an arm, the supercar idling outside a private club—these were the unmistakable semaphores of wealth and social standing. Thorstein Veblen, the great sociologist of the Gilded Age, termed this "conspicuous consumption": the public destruction...
An opinion piece.
I don't use social media hoping one algorithm finally "gets me." I use it as a set of rooms I can arrange. X.com and Facebook.com are the best platforms for that because they let me build those rooms at scale. Other apps guess what I'll watch next. These two let me separate people from topics, news from family, discovery from loyalty, and a bad political week from the rest of...
I. The Definition
The American Heritage Dictionary defines equality as:
"The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc."
Read the semicolon. It is not offering alternatives. It is defining what "the condition or quality of being equal" means. It means agreement in quantity. Likeness in bulk. Sameness in...
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