Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.


Speech at Oxford Union (2014)


Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base...

Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base...

Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base...

Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base...