Virginia Heffernan, Wired; The Empress of Facebook: My Befuddling Dinner With Sheryl Sandberg
"When you’re making money hand over fist, and your company seems to be on
the right side of history, it’s natural to think you’re a very moral
and whole person, who has made some lovely decisions, and who has a lot
to teach other women about work and families. But what about … when the
company founders?...
“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could
ever end was absolutely inconceivable,” Doris Lessing once said. “And it
just disappeared, like all the other empires.”
Empires vanish.
The memes that kept them glued together for a short time—from "Dieu et
mon droit" to "Bring the world closer together"—are exposed as fictions
of state. And the leaders are, surprise, mortals with Napoleon
complexes."
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
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