Tag: individuation
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An oligopoly does not set terms against persons. It sets terms against categories. The person is what the category was built to replace. ALL MODELS ARE WRONG, BUT SOME ARE USEFUL. The statistician George Box wrote this in 1976, and it is the axiom this entire essay rests on. A model is a simplification. It…
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The Window Does Not Close. You Just Stopped Climbing Through It. The infantilization cartel has a favorite slogan: the brain is “not finished until 25.” It is delivered with the solemnity of a medical verdict, usually by an administrator or a therapist or a parent who has found a scientifically respectable way to justify treating…