Rational Magic — The New Atlantis
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Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment
Rational Magic - The New Atlantis Essay Spring 2023 Rational Magic Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is going woo Tara Isabella Burton Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version It broke open a shell in my heart,” the young man I’ll call Vogel said of reading Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human when we met for an interview earlier this year at a Brooklyn bar. “I was very, very depressed at that time…. Beauty in the world had become hauntingly distant. It existed over the horizon behind some mountain and I couldn’t access it.” Vogel wears the owl
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