WHATWE’RE READING Read This compiled by Laura Greaver Has the Presidency Skipped Gen X? Caught between Baby Boomers and Millennials, Generation X may have missed its chance... As the in-between generation – old enough to have witnessed the Clinton era as adults but young enough to learn from its failures – Gen X Democrats could warn against the hubris of the present... The Atlantic We are swimming in writing... Our lives have become an “electronic text,” and social media platforms have created a machine for us to write to. The bait is that we are interacting with friends, colleagues, celebrities, but we really aren’t... We write to the machine and it passes on the message for us after keeping a record of the data. The Guardian CanWe Survive Extreme Heat? Extreme heat is the most direct, tangible, and deadly consequence of our hellbent consumption of fossil fuels. The real question is not whether superheated cities are sustainable... With enough money and engineering skill, The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
Kirsten Gillibrand. They dropped out because they failed to answer a crucial political question... “Who the hell are you?” The remaining Democratic presidential hopefuls are engaged in a free-for-all. Literally. Promising everything free for all of us. The Democrats are vying to see who can promise the most free stuff – college tuition, student-loan forgiveness, Medicare-For-All, Universal Basic Income – and throw in the kitchen sink of subsidized housing for the homeless who crowd the sidewalks of places where everybody votes Democratic like San Francisco and Portland. The Democrats say we can have a government that gives everything to everybody. And what that government will give us isn’t limited to material things like pre-paid PhDs, $0 doctor bills, and a paycheck for doing nothing. Government will also give us encouragement, approval, validation, and self-importance. Government will celebrate our identities and provide us with a good feeling about ourselves as people. This isn’t a “Move to the Left.” This is a “Move Back In With Mom.” Government as your mother. Think that over before you vote for it. Whether you’re 26 or 60... you’ll be living in the basement. She’ll bug you about who you’re dating. And she won’t let you borrow the car.
you can sustain life on Mars. The issue is, sustainable for whom? Rolling Stone
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