I recently gave a presentation on the American Dream, and why it’s a bunch of crap. Salient points reproduced here. As I see it, and as I often hear it, the American Dream (AD) is that any person, no matter where they start in life, can make it to the top. All it takes is […]
Patterns of Information Consumption
A few centuries ago, there wasn’t as much history as there is today. That should be obvious, of course, because a few centuries of history have happened, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In the 14th century, prior to the invention of the printing press, there wasn’t much that a person could really […]