$6 Million, 19 Minutes, and the Bear in the Berry Bush
" Meta fails its drivers test " Last week, one of the greatest philosophers of the post-war era, Jurgen Habermas, died in Germany, part of the famous Frankfurt school. And I’m bringing this up because I want to share with you a thought from Habermas’s mentor, an older philosopher. Theodor Adorno, who was a co-founder of the Frankfurt school’s philosophical tradition. They went through the Hitler years in exile and then came back. Theodor Adorno conducted a moral autopsy of the Third Reich and he identified what he said was the first step on the descent into hell by Germany. And he said it was this: they converted, and I quote, all questions of truth into questions of power… they attacked the very distinction between what is true and what is false. — Al Gore to Tim Miller, The Bulwark, March 27, 2026. In the same week that Habermas ascended and was given his wings, newspapers around the world displayed front-page photographs of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, pointy ta...
