Category: Cultural Critics
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Eating While Looking at Your Phone
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One afternoon, I was installing a custom Rom on my phone. Even though it was a 2024 model, it still only had USB 2.0, so data transfer was painfully slow—and I had a lot to back up and restore. Dinner time rolled around and the job still wasn’t done, but I had to eat, so…
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The Substantial Foundation of Work-Life Balance: High-Quality Private Time
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The phenomenon of extremely long working hours—more than 40 hours per week—exists in both the United States and China. Yet in the U.S., it is mostly confined to a few “bloodsucking” industries, while in China, it permeates nearly every sector of the workforce. One could say that the U.S. lacks a widespread overtime culture, but…
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How to Escape the Age of Mediocrity: Founding an Entirely New System of Education, Art, and Science Institutions
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A “genius” is someone with extraordinarily high creativity. Today, we cannot say there are no geniuses, but they are exceedingly rare. For example, the greatest living philosophers today might be Habermas, Žižek, and Agamben—but compared with Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, who lived in roughly the same historical period, the difference is like night and day.…
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Is China a Collectivist Society or an Atomized One?
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Is China a collectivist society or an atomized one? As I was reading through various academic papers, I noticed some scholars still describe China as a collectivist society, while others have already picked up on its growing atomization. On online forums and insightful blogs, it’s rare to find anyone still clinging to the label of…
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The Dysfunctional Communication Between Academia and Public
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The American public has a long history of distrusting universities, but the congressional hearings at Harvard, MIT, and Penn State have unfortunately taken that distrust to new heights. The three presidents were criticized for their overly lawyerly and nerdy responses. It is also easy to see a source of distrust in this incident. The dominant…