Wednesday Wonders 21
Mallorca Townhouse, Matt Dillon, Rutger Bregman, Oliver Kornetzke, Monopoly
A break last week, because I was recording. But I return with wonders like...
1. This Victorian townhouse in Mallorca
Kylie McDowell
2. Matt Dillon's Closet picks
A really interesting selection of movies.
3. Rutger Bregman's Reith Lectures
I'm reading Bregman's "Moral Ambition", which is brilliant. His Reith lectures are a wake-up call and an inspiration. This being the BBC, the lectures are up on YouTube in the wrong order, so check you're viewing in the correct sequence.
The series is also available on audio here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m002mqm3
4. This quote from Oliver Kornetzke
Apparently this quote went viral some time ago, but I only stumbled onto it recently. As a description of where we are now, it takes some beating:
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
5. Monopoly Is Theft
This article on the origins of Monopoly is far more interesting than playing the game, and takes less time, but is just as enraging:
Christopher Ketcham
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