Astral Codex Ten

Carson

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Carson

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Carson is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and June 23, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Here’s Carson : I have never asked out a woman I didn’t know”; “Here’s Carson : I have never asked out a woman I didn’t know without very strong prior context”; “Check the thread under Carson for more discussion”. It most often appears alongside Congress, FDA, BLM.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 18, 2021
  • Last seen: June 23, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
May 18, 2021 · Original source
Lots of people had thought about where the “creepiness” and “how do you ask women out?” discourse had gone. Here’s Carson:
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Check the thread under Carson for more discussion on this theme.
Your Book Review: Public Citizens
June 23, 2023 · Original source
But by the 1960s, the cracks in this model were starting to show. A report prepared for President-elect Kennedy outlined the problem of regulatory capture, the process by which agencies intended to regulate private businesses got too close to their subjects and end up serving them instead4. And a new class of liberal intellectuals rose to prominence by pointing out the ways in which the political establishment’s plans sometimes rode roughshod over the citizens they were supposed to serve. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring criticized the USDA’s indiscriminate use of pesticides, and Jane Jacobs’ grassroots movement successfully blocked Robert Moses—the ultimate agency man—from ramming a highway through the West Village.
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For all their accomplishments, though, Carson, Jacobs, and other activists in their mold tended to stay in one lane. Their objections were to specific government plans, not to the entire structure of the plan-making apparatus. It would take someone who thought a little bigger to uproot the New Deal agency model entirely.