So people are wondering about the disconnect between recent rapid economic growth (mostly in the market, 8.2% is it?) and the continued loss of jobs (2.3 million of them). For some reason, people continue to feel as though both numbers can’t be true. I don’t understand this hesitation. We’ve seen it before. It’s called “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It’s called capital.
On another note:
o n l y p a p e r s r e m a i n !
§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
§ Untitled. (a.k.a. Pretty faces, new old photos.)