This is the story of all colonialisms: settlers build their tall, shiny things on the embers of the societies they torch, export the spoils and bury their guilt in their families, splaying out on the terraces, declaring themselves home at last.
"Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv", Kaleem Hawa for The White Review
A runner-up from this essay, perhaps made more resonant with the context that it is discussing Los Angeles and Tel Aviv:
In a sense, both cities sell the promise of forgetting.
But mostly, the whales were spread on toast.
"We Did It to Make Margarine", Seth Miller
Submitted by Erin.
It is not a serious pronouncement: It is just an accessory, designed to present the person who wears it as a provocateur.
"Lauren Oyler Thinks She's Better Than You", Becca Rothfield for The Washington Post
Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds, we, as the Board of Governors and CEO of RNIDS, would like to reach out to the Rust Foundation and the Rust community to express our support for your efforts and to say that the global Rust community is welcome on the .rs domain.
Letter from RNIDS, the Serbian domain name registry, to the Rust Foundation
"Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works"??? Yes!!
Nevertheless, this is a development in online derangement that’s worth tracking.
A forest was just what the government said was a forest.
Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, Arun Agrawal
Nobody / is supposed / to know / what's special / about / another person's / rock.
Everybody Needs a Rock, Bryd Baylor
And still, at its best, interpretation is not simply a way of explaining away difficulties; it is a project of world-building—of letting texts be changed by the world and the world by texts.
"Facing Amalek", Maya Rosen for Jewish Currents