Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Jonah Goldberg would never get under our skin. We position ourselves as the bigger men. Why Substack is worth asking questions about, damnit. The eulogy versus obituary question that sent Mickey into a ‘dark place’. Bill Gates has paid the media $319 million—What did he get in return? Record lobbyist spending in Washington—by Hollywood standards it’s still puny. Bob’s secret history with the Ford Foundation. Beware the ‘holographic presence’ at WeWork. Are pot smokers losers? Bob presents impressive evidence that they’re not. Elon’s 20th crusade (against… pollen). Teslas are looking dowdy; the rich are ready to move on to a new status car. China’s Belt and Road troubles: feature or bug? The wisdom of Donald Trump Jr. Coney Barrett sides with the liberals. Will Stop the Steal become part of the Republican canon? Does Fetterman fail to project vitality? We already know things about the next Trump presidency. (How does “Attorney General Jeffrey Clark” sound?) Isaac Chotiner and Ali G. A memorable scene from Borat. Ethan Hawke has a Ukraine peace plan so crazy that… Critics find a theme in Mickey’s fiction. How Gordon Lish ruined Raymond Carver. Did the Bonesaw Circuit beat the British Open? Commenter comes up with not bad Parrot Room slogan. Is the streaming business model dead? Bob’s meme-worthy consciousness argument. Frazier’s got the moves like Biden, too.
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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