Obsolete

In the century that

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In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that … Read more

From the Latin word

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From the Latin word imponere, base of the obsolete English impone and translated as impress in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms imponator (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the imponator effect) and imponade (that goo that fills you as you get impressed with something – from marmelade, … Read more

Future historians, I hope,

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Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century–a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its … Read more

If loyalty is, and

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If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can … Read more