HeyJaredRushkoff
I write about how we can sustain our humanity in a highly digital world.
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Money is a Forever Chemical, AI is Forever Slop (opens the original)
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Embracing Apocalypse (opens the original)
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We’re all going to die.There. I said it.The only real question is whether we do it individually, or all together at the same time.There’s a pervasive, ambient terror many of us have been carrying for a while now. Words like “collapse” and “polycrisis” have replaced more actionable entry points to social change, such as “environment” or “peace.” Doom is everywhere. It sometimes feels as if there’s nothing we can do but sit and hold space for what’s about to happen.And over the past couple of year
Summer of Ludd and the New Presentist Activism (opens the original)
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The Summer of Ludd was in full swing here in New York’s East Village last month—a festival for people who are challenging the inevitability of a digital future on the terms of the tech oligarchs, and questioning many of the false promises, as well as the necessary compromises along the way. It’s inspiring. Next level. A leaderless movement; or maybe leaderful. Or maybe just taking orders from the Earth itself, in real time. Engaged without a full plan. Trusting in the collective will as it unfol
What Would Bruce Lee Do? UFC Propaganda and the Myth of Might Makes Right (opens the original)
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Like many New Yorkers, I’m still kind of buzzing from our recent victory. No, I don’t mean the socialist democrat candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani who won their primaries—though that was interesting, and I’d argue much less about Mamdani’s charisma or endorsement than a genuine groundswell of people who see the potential for a civics that supports human flourishing. Government can be about even more than beating up people in the street, preventing them from getting healthcare, or poi
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