The crisis is not that the press is distrusted: the press has always been distrusted. The crisis is that this has finally dawned on the press.
A civilization that values chiefly what it can measure will produce expensive ugliness, as we observe.
The ability to devise a good story has nothing in common with the ability to write tolerable prose.
“Who would do something that stupid?” This is the Inanity Defense, and it should never be believed.
Bad behavior is caused by the desire to behave badly.
That we live in a simulation no one doubts. The only point at issue is whose.
Things always make sense, though we rarely do.
Agency — use it or lose it.
An event scheduled long in advance grows ominous as it nears: one resents one’s past self for impudently binding the present.
We complain of government inefficiency and unaccountability, instead of government mass murder, wholesale theft, and miseducation of our children by force, which makes our own supine posture rather too apparent.