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email screamed, one of a dozen emails that greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed
er they go, and if them, then why not everyone? If we all have those tools to some extent, shouldn’t we all be able to benefit? These scenarios echo Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” in which exceptional aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society
email screamed, one of a dozen emails that greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed
er they go, and if them, then why not everyone? If we all have those tools to some extent, shouldn’t we all be able to benefit? These scenarios echo Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” in which exceptional aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society
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Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t have to say it, you know. Hoover would just go to JFK and say, “We found some photo of you in bed with Marilyn Monroe. But don’t you worry, we'll keep it in our safe.” EP: You've lived through some Red s
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →t “Best Seller”. EP: Earlier you mentioned two interesting words: “assassination” and “impeach- ment”. You have the benefit of having lived through Kennedy and Nixon. PK: My earliest remembrance of a Presi- dent was Franklin D Roosevelt. EP: Do you remember him on the radio? PK: Yes. He was famous for
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →: He said, “Hey, that’s a great t-shirt!” He took it literally! EP: | know the poster was said to be the perfect confluence of two banned terms. PK: Kurt Vonnegut praised it for that. EP: “Fuck” has kind of won, right? You can say “Fuck” anything now, and it’s fine. That is one experience I don’t have, growing
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George W. Bush
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Marc Rich
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Prince Andrew
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Ghislaine Maxwell
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Bill Clinton
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Milan
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Alan Dershowitz
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Eric Trump
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Lawrence Krauss
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Julie K. Brown
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Stephen Hawking
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Barack Obama
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Robert Gates
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Samantha Power
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Barry Diller
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Glenn Dubin
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Hillary Clinton
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Wilbur Ross
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Bill Gates
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