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Knowledge and meaning are in freefall. We’re seeing system collapse before our very eyes. Everything we thought we could trust is slipping through our fingers, evaporating. Presidents no longer follow the law, politicians no longer practice decency. Scientists are doubted, experts are despised. Education is crumbling. Business is imploding.
I have finished reading the novel “Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney, and I am sitting in the same chair I sat in while reading it, which is also the chair where I think about what it means to have read something like this. Did I like it? A question with moral
A stream of electric vehicles silently slips by you and you realise the future has already arrived. It’s not fully formed but it’s here. China has become the world’s largest auto market, impacting everything from car design to building cities optimised for self-driving cars. Every major auto-company
Sayaka Murata’s “Earthlings” is a very Japanese novel with a very Japanese protagonist. It starts nice and proper like novels do in Japan, with a girl who doesn’t fit in. Japanese novels always have a girl who doesn’t fit in. But this girl, she really doesn’t
The dirt road is straight and true. It runs towards the sea between grazing properties pocked with the occasional house set back on either side of barbed wire fences. Dry and dusty and fringed with clumps of parched grass. You’re driving down the middle of the road because you