Spectacles and Tragedies: The Modern Colosseum and its Discontents
From record-breaking football transfers to mixed martial arts triumphs and community tragedies, our collective obsessions reveal the paradoxical nature of progress in our troubled metropolitan existence.
George Pearson
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Seoul's Youth Wave: How Lifestyle Trends Signal Economic Evolution
The trends sweeping through Seoul reveal deeper shifts in economic priorities, consumption patterns, and value systems that may redefine how capital flows in the coming decade.
Warren Anderson
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The Fleeting Follies of American Farce: On Meth Labs, Faltering Freedom, and Minor League Baseball
From the drug corridors of Arkansas to the political self-immolation of the Freedom Caucus to the quiet triumph of minor league baseball, the trends of the day reveal something eternal about the American character and its peculiar contradictions.
George Pearson
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The Values Economy: How We Trade Authenticity and Outrage in the Reputation Bazaar
As social media and culture blend into one vast reputation market, public figures and brands navigate a treacherous landscape of value signaling and authenticity performance. The shifting tides of our attention economy reveal how the quest for appearing morally positioned comes at a cost to actual connection, as people and companies jockey for positioning in our digital village.
Warren Anderson
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