At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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hemlock smoothie
Universities still teach Socrates, but only rarely entertain the genuine institutional risk that his intellectual integrity signifies.
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Dissent: Amplifying Signals
A basic rule of public communication is that attention is not a side effect; it is the medium itself. Attempts to suppress a message therefore carry a predictable risk: suppression becomes the story. In Canberra, police seized posters from the window of a local café and bar following a complaint and temporarily closed the venue […]
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