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Monday, February 8, 2021

"How I Became A Prophet"-Kurt Andersen

I just wrote a short piece called "How I Became A Prophet," mock-self-congratulatory but also self-congratulatory, for @Medium.

Where I'll be publishing short pieces regularly, by the way, and welcome you to follow me.

...Then there's the two histories I published, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (2017) and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America (2020). The first is about how selling and believing exciting falsehoods—such as preposterous conspiracy theories—has defined America for its whole 400 years and lately spun dangerously out of control. I finished it before Trump was nominated for president, and it came out before QAnon existed. Central to Evil Geniuses is the story of how manic and senseless financial speculation and stock-price obsession became the tail wagging our economic dog, turning America into a crooked casino where the house always wins; the GameStop episode was a perfect example of history repeating, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce...

https://t.co/sANcPoqvMe
(https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/status/1358823790168461315?s=02)

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