Lewis Lapham on Legalizing Drugs, Hating the Facebook, and Curating the Past at Lapham's Quarterly
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Google"Intoxication is the becoming of someone else or the going to somewhere else," says Lewis Lapham, editor and founder of Lapham's Quarterly. Soon after stepping down as the long-time editor at Harper's Magazine, Lapham started his eponymous quarterly - a curated magazine of historical essays, poetry, quotes, and excerpts focusing on a single topic. In the latest issue, which deals with the subject of intoxication, Lapham candidly discusses his use of drugs and alcohol and why he believes pot and most other substances should be legal.
Lapham sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss his magazine, American's unique relationship to intoxicants, and why he likens Facebook and Google to Soviet NKVD and the Gestapo.
Shot by Anthony Fisher and Jim Epstein. Edited by Meredith Bragg.
Approximately 9:15 min.
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"I'm trying to make available a resource. I'm not trying to data mine it to sell something. Television is advertising, and increasingly advertising gets on to the internet. It's a pitch."
Jimmy James: Let me tell you something, little miss. Advertising pays our bills. Advertising pays your salary. Advertising is what made this country great!
Lisa: Well, okay, maybe I misspoke...
Jimmy James: What was the Constitution of the United States?
Lisa: A document...
Jimmy James: No! It is an advertisement! An advertisement for liberty! "When in the course of human events..." I'm telling ya, that's right up there with "Put a tiger in your tank," and "Where's the beef?" -
Yep, Facebook absolutely sucks donkey balls, unless you're the sort of person who likes having all of his personal information shared with Block Insane Yomomma and all the shitheads in his administration.
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Assuming Facebook is sending them our data? Because you can set your profile so only some people can see it.
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It doesn't matter what your settings are set to, Zuckerberg is sharing everything on there with his buddies in the administration (and other entities as well). I got off that piece of crap site a while ago and would never visit it again.
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Your faith is touching, in a way. Facebook makes a bazillion dollars by monetizing data from its
productusers. They provide some sops to privacy, but it's no coincidence that their EULA is longer than the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution including all amendments, combined. The privacy settings aren't that buried and hard to use because of poor design, either. They work *exactly* as designed. -
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This is a good news to me...