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The Ulysses algorithm (opens the original)
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We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.― James JoyceOn my most recent drive between Melbourne and Sydney, I listened to the audiobook of The Odyssey. It was Emily Wilson’s translation read by actor Claire Danes, who did an extraordinary job. (I should say she performed it, rather than simply read it.) And while cruising up and down the Hume Highway listening to an audiobook doesn’t exactly repl
From impossible to inevitable (opens the original)
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One of the truisms of political action is that you need a hardy band of of people who, more or less in the shadows, develop and promote new ideas in advance of the mainstream and centrists so that such ideas are available to those in power when the time is right. The notion is most famously expressed by Milton Friedman: “When [a] crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policie
Restitching democracy (opens the original)
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I want to continue with a theme that has emerged in the last few newsletters, about the way in which party politics has become detached from the concerns of the people it is meant to represent. This is part of a long-term and worldwide trend that has seen the hollowing out of political representation, tied, most especially, to the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s. This rationality has framed and interacted with processes of deindustrialisation, globalisation, privatisation and growing state re
Ur-Hansonism (opens the original)
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Thinking is a form of emasculation. —Umberto Eco (Point 3)In his 1940 review of Mein Kampf, George Orwell makes one of his typically insightful comments about the authoritarian modus operandi:Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least in
Outside in (opens the original)
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When a true leader’s work is accomplished…it leaves no trace and the people say, We did it ourselves (ziran). —George WoodsI’ve been struck recently by the number of people I know who are doing different sorts of volunteering. It’s partly a factor of age—people I know who at or near retirement—but I think it goes deeper than that. Deeper than just trying to be good neighbours because they might suddenly have more free time. It
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