Why Is American Fiction in Its Current Dismal State:
"It promotes grief, paralysis, inaction: a determinism for the post-politics society, where ideology has no place. Mired in appreciation of beautiful (or rather prettified) language for its own sake, without connection to ideology—although that is an ideology of its own, and perhaps the most corrosive and debilitating ideology of all—serious fiction writing today has lost any connection with a wide, appreciative readership."
Oculus Grift: Capital as the cutting-edge AI app:
"Governments all over the world are indulging in the same form of statistical imagination, as surpluses are directed away from public goods into handling debt—creating debt and paying it off—a never-ending cycle that has nothing to do with public policy as we have understood it. Time, space, and life—the future of the earth itself—are encoded as statistical probabilities where former conceptions of alienation and belonging have no meaning. All communication becomes encoded within the parameters of this abstract information-gathering which presents itself as the only available form of rationality."
A skeptical liberal’s guide to the “alt-left”: And it’s not who you think
"The insane in the asylum are the last ones to doubt their sanity, which is why, appropriately enough, after this election they have been given an asylum all their own. There you will find them optimistic, deluded, counting on a Trump implosion (it’s coming any day now, after which America will go back to “normal”), reaffirming each other’s identities in garish shows of mutual appreciation (on social media they are untouchable, simply untouchable, despite the electoral defeat), and bent on continuing their double talk, their snark, their history- and morality-free discourse castigating anyone who wants real change in America as being dangerously utopian."
"It promotes grief, paralysis, inaction: a determinism for the post-politics society, where ideology has no place. Mired in appreciation of beautiful (or rather prettified) language for its own sake, without connection to ideology—although that is an ideology of its own, and perhaps the most corrosive and debilitating ideology of all—serious fiction writing today has lost any connection with a wide, appreciative readership."
Oculus Grift: Capital as the cutting-edge AI app:
"Governments all over the world are indulging in the same form of statistical imagination, as surpluses are directed away from public goods into handling debt—creating debt and paying it off—a never-ending cycle that has nothing to do with public policy as we have understood it. Time, space, and life—the future of the earth itself—are encoded as statistical probabilities where former conceptions of alienation and belonging have no meaning. All communication becomes encoded within the parameters of this abstract information-gathering which presents itself as the only available form of rationality."
A skeptical liberal’s guide to the “alt-left”: And it’s not who you think
"The insane in the asylum are the last ones to doubt their sanity, which is why, appropriately enough, after this election they have been given an asylum all their own. There you will find them optimistic, deluded, counting on a Trump implosion (it’s coming any day now, after which America will go back to “normal”), reaffirming each other’s identities in garish shows of mutual appreciation (on social media they are untouchable, simply untouchable, despite the electoral defeat), and bent on continuing their double talk, their snark, their history- and morality-free discourse castigating anyone who wants real change in America as being dangerously utopian."
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