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“The Contestant” Is More Than a Cautionary Tale

“The Contestant” Is More Than a Cautionary Tale 6

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tomoaki Hamatsu became one of the world’s first reality-TV stars when, as an aspiring comedian in his early twenties, he spent fifteen months naked and alone, surviving on sheer luck. The…

Everything’s a cult now

Everything’s a cult now 36

Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy. Getty Images Is damn near everything a cult now? That’s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet…