Pluralistic: Kate Beaton's "Ducks" (14 Jan 2023)


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Pluralistic: 11 Mar 2022


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What is “Peak Indifference?”

A Theory and a Plan for Change.

A silhouette of a shrugging man in front of a wildfire.
( Cameron Strandberg/CC BY 2.0, modified)

Back in 2016, I coined the term “peak indifference” to describe a political phenomenon, when people who have denied an urgent problem begin to self-radicalize, not because of activists or public education, but because the problem has caught up with them, personally.

As I’ve written here, a neat microcosm of peak indifference is smoking: even if you convince yourself that tobacco isn’t that bad for you, if you keep smoking long enough, you will likely come to understand that it is very bad for you, because Stage 4 lung-cancer is convincing in a way that even the most persuasive talk with your family doctor can never be.

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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021


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Pluralistic: 12 May 2021


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Pluralistic: 25 Feb 2021


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Pluralistic: 21 Sep 2020


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  • Fincen (they fucking knew all along): $2t in unpunished money laundering, leaked from the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
  • California's fire-debt: A century of mismanagement and PG&E;'s criminal neglect meets the climate emergency.
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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