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This Place is Weird
by Alexander Rose
Here you'll find my meandering musings over all sorts of topics, filtered through the lens of my specialization in marketing and consumer culture. Come and join me.
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What's Up With the Crisis of Masculinity?
While avoiding liberal and conservative cliches, I discuss the masculinity crisis and try to unpack why the manosphere is so appealing.
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Where Is the AI Utopia?
Inspired by some weird news out of the New York Fed and ongoing conversations about AI, I ponder why the future looks grim when we're apparently on the doorstep of automation.
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Enjoymaxxing and Monogamy
What happens when relationships are commodities? What happens when dating feels the same as looking through pictures or changing your music? What happens when you're supposed to be yolo pilled enjoymaxxers and ONE PERSON has to meet all your needs?
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The Future of College (3/3)
With the scammer established and college as a commodity analyzed, we look to the future of college and the question of enjoyment. Alfie Bown's "Enjoying It" https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/enjoying-it
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The Commodification of College (2/3)
Following up on last week's discussion of the scammer, we spend some time with the theoretical implications of college as a commodity as well as a brief discussion of why this thing got so expensive with regard to both policy and resource allocation within and among universities.
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Is College a Scam? (1/3)
Characteristically chaotic and meandering discussion of whether college is a scam, and if so, who is the scammer?
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Here you'll find my meandering musings over all sorts of topics, filtered through the lens of my specialization in marketing and consumer culture. Come and join me.
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This Place is Weird is created and hosted by Alexander Rose.
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