maga, explained

“A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands for the general anxiety is greater.” —Norman Mailer I. Norman Mailer once posited, in so many thousand words, that our greatest ally in making critical decisions in circumstances both highly consequential and immediately threatening is instinct.…

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Space Is Deep. A Plea for The UFO Factory and Beyond.

About twenty years or so ago you couldn’t really get a decent Italian dinner in this town. Can you now? More on that later perhaps. In Detroit, if you had a mad craving for linguine alla vongole it was Mario’s, or Giovanni’s, or bust. Don’t even get me started on Mario’s. I love the place, in a…

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