Reading and interpreting poetry offers a unique way to cultivate ethical knowledge and therefore bears on collective, and not just individual, life.
To measure the Wealth of Nations, you had to inspect the shirts on people’s backs and the shoes on their feet.
As the titans of big tech see it, the reticence to upgrade is nothing less than resistance to progress. But a willingness to upgrade does not benefit customers in the long run.
Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas.
In memory of a happy half a decade.