{"id":7641,"date":"2025-03-21T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T21:35:33","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-496-christianity-in-silicon-valley-bogus-world-happiness-and-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/03\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-496-christianity-in-silicon-valley-bogus-world-happiness-and-smut","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume #496: Christianity in Silicon Valley, Bogus World Happiness, and Smut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>\n\n On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Was \u201cBor\u00adder\u00adline Ille\u00adgal\u201d in Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley. Now It\u2019s the New Reli\u00adgion<\/a> (Zo\u00eb Bernard, Van\u00adi\u00adty Fair): \u201cIt used to be that the 20-some\u00adthing whiz kid who cod\u00aded a viral game and dropped out of Stan\u00adford was a ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adist dar\u00adling. \u2018VCs used to throw mon\u00adey at that guy,\u2019 said a woman who man\u00adages com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions at a top-tier ven\u00adture firm. \u2018Now if some\u00adone comes in and says, \u2018I love my par\u00adents so much, I grew up going to church, and then I joined the Army and that\u2019s what gives me my work eth\u00adic,\u2019 VCs will be like, \u2019Oh my God, that guy.<\/em> Let\u2019s fund that guy.<\/em>\u2019\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Sex With\u00adout Women<\/a> (Caitlin Flana\u00adgan, The Atlantic): \u201c\u2026the force that through the green fuse dri\u00adves the flower (and the mon\u00adey) is het\u00adero\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal male desire for women. And here was porn so good, so var\u00adied, so ready to please, so instantly\u2014insistently\u2014available, that it led to a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of men who think of porn not as a back\u00adup to hav\u00ading sex, but as an improve\u00adment on it. They pre\u00adfer<\/em> it.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The World Hap\u00adpi\u00adness Report Is a Sham<\/a> (Yascha Mounk, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhen you walk around the\u2014admittedly beautiful\u2014centers of Copen\u00adhagen or Stock\u00adholm, you rarely see any\u00adbody smile. Could these real\u00adly be the hap\u00adpi\u00adest places in the whole wide world? So, to hon\u00ador World Hap\u00adpi\u00adness Day, I final\u00adly decid\u00aded to fol\u00adlow my hunch, and look into the research on this top\u00adic more deeply. What I found was worse than I\u2019d imag\u00adined. To put it polite\u00adly, the World Hap\u00adpi\u00adness Report is beset with method\u00adolog\u00adi\u00adcal prob\u00adlems. To put it blunt\u00adly, it is a sham.\u201d\n