I call this “the social zamboni.” It is something that smooths out the rough edges and fields of intensity. I do not think that this particular social formation is one that was designed – such thinking would be conspiracism – but one that has gradually emerged to make the environment in which it occurs more stable.
Read MoreSo, I blew past the goal I set on Goodreads. I tend to set it very low, because I want to take my time with things, and a lot of my day job involves reading things so I can explain them to people who were supposed to have read them and didn’t. However, due to the ongoing everything, I’ve been mainlining audiobooks when Edgar’s out of the house and I’ve made it extremely fa
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