Your boss has probably never read a single page of Das Kapital. They might not even know the difference between Marx and Engels. But they hate Karl Marx. Not the person, necessarily. They hate what he represents. They hate the questions he asked, because those questions have a nasty habit of making the answers uncomfortable. […]
You scrolled for forty minutes last night. You know this because your phone told you so, in that passive aggressive weekly report it sends like a concerned parent. And what did you gain? A vague sense that everyone is on vacation, everyone is in love, and everyone has better abs than you. This is not
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Every time you scroll through a feed, tap “accept” on a cookie banner, or type a search query, you are producing something. You are generating data. Clicks, locations, preferences, habits, relationships, fears, desires. All of it captured, stored, processed, and sold. The question nobody seems to settle is whether any of that belongs to you.
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There is something almost comic about the way we argue. We gather our facts. We line them up neatly like soldiers. We march them toward the opposing view with full confidence that the sheer weight of evidence will do the work. And then nothing happens. The other person blinks, nods politely, and goes right on
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There is something almost comedic about it. A 19th century German philosopher who went insane, wrote in aphorisms, and once declared God dead has become the most quoted thinker in podcasts, self help lectures, and online intellectual culture. Friedrich Nietzsche shows up everywhere. Jordan Peterson references him constantly. So does Sam Harris. So do the
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