I have a month of queue going on, due to travelling and mind-broadening stuff. The truth is out there, and so is a lot of bullshit, but that just fertilises the truth.

16th July 2012

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The rational public discourse that philosophers from Socrates to Kant believed would thrive in public space is nowhere to be heard, replaced by a ravenous hive-mind simulacrum of tweeted rage and casual character assassination.
Mark Kingwell, Retouching the Void, Harper’s March 2012

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