Month: June 2021

NYTimes: Trumpism Without Borders

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America is embedded in a world that is troubled by insidious parallel variants of the same structural problems — anti-immigrant fervor, political tribalism, racism, ethnic tension, authoritarianism and inequality — that led to a right-wing takeover of the federal government by Donald Trump.

The peculiarly American characteristics of the Trump years have blinded us to the spread of this radical disorder worldwide — even as some prescient scholars and analysts have seen the connections all along and have been trying to make the public aware of them.

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NYTimes: Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left

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“Like many public intellectuals who are worth reading, George Packer and Jonathan Rauch don’t toe a predictable line in American political and intellectual debate. They despise Donald Trump and the disinformation-heavy discord he has spawned. But they don’t share all the views of progressives, either, as they’ve come to be defined in many left-leaning spaces. Packer and Rauch are here to defend the liberalism of the Enlightenment — equality and scientific rationality in an unapologetically Western-tradition sense. They see this belief system as the country’s great and unifying strength, and they’re worried about its future.”
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Six chilling quotes from ‘The Social Dilemma’ | The Utah Statesman

Six chilling quotes from ‘The Social Dilemma’ | The Utah Statesman

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“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” — Sophocles 

A cynical outlook on life, but he’s not wrong. Just like people have good and bad sides, there’s a good and a bad side to everything. Every creation, invention or object can be used wholesomely and with good intent or used in manipulative agitation or to purposefully cause harm. It’s imperative that we remain aware of the dangers our new technologies bring to the table. 

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