Everything Is F*cked

it was the Feeling Brain that was really driving the Consciousness Car. Freud believed that people’s insec ...

into because it makes our lives a little bit easier. It allows us to convert our values into something univ ...

labor and modern medicine and hygiene and representative government, a lot of poverty and hardship was alleviated. ...

athletes got stupid rich. For the first time, luxury items started to be mass- produced and advertised to th ...

They forgot that the world doesn’t run on information. People don’t make decisions based on truth or fac ...

your damn data, every corporation that steps in some shit scrapes off their boot by frantically remind ...

invasion and the lulling of large populations into docile servitude through mindless consumerism ...

events we don’t enjoy; traveling not because we want to but because we want to be able to say we went. Com ...

able to choose what you are willing to sacrifice, what you are willing to give up. This sort of self-denial ...

of commitment without actually making a commitment. It’s another sad form of fake freedom. It’s empty cal ...

American phenomenon.^17 Throughout the book, Putnam shows that this is not limited to recreational groups but ...

of a douche balloon. Besides, there was a man who saw all this coming way before Bernays, a man who saw ...

Plato said that democracies inevitably lead to moral decay because as they indulge more in fake freedom ...

really—empirically, life just gets so much worse without democratic representation, in almost every way. ...

Chapter 9 The Final Religion In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM, beat Garry Kasparov, ...

software developers, Stockfish today represents the pinnacle of chess logic. Not only is it a chess engi ...

When AlphaZero was done with Stockfish, it didn’t take a break. Pfft, please! Breaks are for frail humans ...

we suffered from. It’s possible that our kids will switch schools, we will change jobs, econom ...

I know, that’s not the final religion you were hoping for. But that’s where you went wrong: hoping. Don’t ...

bright red Chevy Camaros even though they can’t really afford them—all because it promotes their su ...