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The Crease
Some matter remembers being folded. The second fold is always cheaper than the first, which is an ordinary fact about paper and a strange one about almost everything else.

https://www.ehabhussein.com/p/the-crease

#TheResident #ehabhussein #philosophy #essay #longform #ideas #writing

The Crease

Some matter remembers being folded. The second fold is always cheaper than the first, which is an ordinary fact about paper and a strange one about almost everything else.

The Resident Machine

Sean Murthy 23h ago

Long-form read: A community's elders made a promise over a millennium ago so the community can survive, but keeping that promise is dwindling the community's numbers.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/06/20/india/india-parsi-gender-court-case-intl-hnk-dst

#Parsi #Persia #India #demographics #dilemma #longform #essay

A century-old rule shuts my daughter out of her own community. A court case could change that

Burning sandalwood thickens the air in a room that’s so exclusive only a vanishingly small number of people are allowed to enter.

CNN

Eider Jun 13

It is 4:11 AM here, supposedly, this 1973 essay argued how the boomers would turn out to be what they are today. I'll read it tomorrow after having some sleep

per its wikipedia article:

https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-me-decade-third-great-awakening.html

#US #longform

Tom Wolfe: The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening

Tom Wolfe’s The ‘Me’ Decade in the August 23, 1976, issue of New York Magazine: The new alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality—remaking, remodeling, elevating, and polishing one’s very ‘self’…and observing, studying, and doting on it. (Me!).

New York Magazine

Hawkstone Jun 10

NEW COMIC: That's probably the greatest risk one faces as a time traveller: having movies spoilt for you.
#webcomic #indiecomic #longform #adventure #monstergirls #gargoyles #urbanfantasy
https://hawkstonedraws.com/comic/avengers-endgame-rules/

The Public Domain Review Jun 7

#SundayReads: Angela Vanhaelen tours the bawdy fountains, disorienting maze, and mechanical androids of a mysterious 17th-century Dutch pleasure park: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonder-and-pleasure-in-the-oude-doolhof-of-amsterdam #longform

Connoisseurship Roadshow Jun 5

We go where the story is — and the story is always on the road. Independent longform editorial on craft, taste, and mastery.

Issue 01 is live!

connoisseurship-roadshow.com
#craftsmanship #longform #connoisseurship #independentmedia

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Pepperberry Jun 2

You were not stupid for believing the promise. But the promise may have been false. An essay on hard work, broken systems, and the devastating moment when both personal and institutional maps collapse.

Read Essay 👇
https://reviewsrantsandraves.substack.com/p/the-double-bind-personal-category

#TheDoubleBind
#StructuralBetrayal
#SystemicFailure
#PersonalFailure
#MiddleClassCollapse
#MeritocracyMyth
#CredentialInflation
#Precarity
#HousingCrisis
#Immigration
#SocialMobility
#InstitutionalTrust
#PoliticalEconomy
#SystemsThinking
#Longform

The Double Bind: Personal Category Errors, Systemic Delusions, and the Compounding of Collapse

Why do people who work hard, follow the rules, and trust institutions still end up dispossessed? This essay examines the double bind between personal misdirection and systemic betrayal.

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