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A Fruitless and Insincere Disassociation

“It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active…

Everybody’s Friend

From 1922: “Why I Quit Being So Accommodating”

“You are thirty-five years old,” I said to myself. “More than half of your life has already been spent. Who is living your life, anyway? Is it actually yours? Or is it a kind of public…

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“Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is.” — Garry Shandling

‘Kids Today’

A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house prices is depressing the incomes and prospects of millions of young people across the developed world, resulting in unprecedented inequality between generations.

Terms of Indifference

The most terrifying fact of the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can…

Technical Manager

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
 — Archibald Putt

Generation Gap

It’s been a long time since there was a true generation gap, perhaps 50 years — you have to go back to the early years of rock and roll, when old people still talked about ‘jungle rhythms.’ Everything associated with that music and its greasy, shaggy culture felt baffling and divisive, from the crude…

Paying Attention

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!—Upton Sinclair