Context Disruption - by David Phelps - Three quarks

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The greatest trick the bull market pulled was making us believe that entertainers abusing their power meant, somehow, that they were standing up against power itself.

I’m assembling a team. The following essay is part of Mirror’s writing NFT launch—you can collect this essay on Mirror here. One working definition of a bull market: it’s whenever we’re celebrating assholes. One working definition of a bear: it’s whenever we’re celebrating their downfall. All of which is to say—to tell the story of Do Kwon is really just to tell the story of us. In a constellation of alternate worlds, each with their own variant histories and errant quirks with a squinting resemblance to our own, I’d like to think that there are one or two planets—not the majority of…

Context Disruption - by David Phelps - Three quarks

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