But when I remember to pause - when I go for a walk, when my husband reminds me to relax and enjoy, when I'm truly present with a good friend - I remember. I speed through my daily life, zipping from meeting to text, flitting from phone call to errand. just as there is “between speed and forgetting.” “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory".
When I was reading his latest (unsurprisingly, beautifully-written) book - The Intimate City - in preparation for our conversation, I was struck by this quote from Milan Kundera: Interviewing Michael Kimmelman in the exalted halls of The New York Times. So if you haven’t subscribed yet, now is the time to press the red button. We will open up tickets to the general public on February 15. From now until February 14, ONLY paid subscribers can sign up for tickets. If you’re a paid subscriber, you’re in luck. We’ll send out more details in the coming week, but in brief: in order to keep the event intimate and interactive, we’re capping the conversation to only 35 people. And so, on March 7th, at 2pm ET, Adaam and I will venture into a Zoom space for a lively, free, virtual conversation on eschatologies, catastrophes, and general doom. We sent the newsletter to both of them, and asked: hey, would you two want to talk more about this? To each other? In front of a live audience? In Uncertainty #3: Cancel Vultures (written in the wake of our conversation with the doomsayer himself, Peter Turchin ), Adaam cited two folks we’ve interviewed who have similarly mused on the reasons for our society’s (impending? current?) collapse: the historian Niall Ferguson and former CIA analyst Martin Gurri.
In a move surprising no one who’s ever listened to us for more than two seconds, the theme is apocalyptic. 🚨 We’re hosting our first ever virtual event! 🚨 Before we get into the meat of it, special announcement time.
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