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Short Takes #16: The Walking Wounded

Robert Anton Wilson | Women and AI | Amazon Go and Fresh | US Labor Rate | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie

Stowe Boyd
Feb 09, 2026
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Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief.

| Robert Anton Wilson

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In his final column at the NY Times, David Brooks offered this:

Only 13 percent of …

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