Ben Carlos Thypin

…ep into your most repressed feelings leads to facing more and more upsetting experiences and fears. My journey to emotional healing has been like a shitty video game where the reward for beating one level is to begin exploring an even more difficult, screwed-up level. But in the five years since I decided to eat again, I have not even deliberately skipped a meal, eve…

…sitions. Then we find ourselves embroiled in something almost ugly, this welling of animal feeling. Elections are not a principled debates, with starched collars and pince-nez, and forthright expressions. Elections are the inscrutable nighttime flashings of a deadly, phosphorescing bacteria, trying to reach a quorum. And, in truth, the universe at our scale is ruled by these slight differences, in which agglomeratio…

I do believe that Mark and Priscilla want to have a meaningful positive impact on the world, and I am unapologetically enthusiastic about the fact they’re articulating that vision in a way that will lead others. I am also grievously concerned about the greatest threat to those intentions: The culture of Silicon Valley. Many of the loudest, most prominent voices within the tech industry, people who have Zuckerberg’s ear, are already thoughtlessly describing smart critique of the Initiative as “hating”, absurdly dismissing legitimate concerns as jealousy.