Ari Rose on Clubhouse

Bio

Revolving interests include comparative psychology, finance, PPE (not masks, particularly — the interplay between philosophy, politics, and economics), animals, embodied experiences, and humour from the UK.

Available to rant about topics listed below after a cup of coffee:

The psychological and spiritual impact of unlimited access to information and media. Cybersickness.

The future of winner-take-all markets when locality decreasingly matters in an information economy.

Centuries-old nihilism sublimating as amusement, progress, or multiculturalism (Meme culture, degradation of language, relativism, denial of truth and beauty, academic hyper-specialization, identity obsessions). Amplified when paired with destabilizing forces (mobs, Wall Street Bets, populism).

The decrepit state of journalism, the academy, healthcare, and how we treat the elderly population. These institutions deserve so much better.

Clubhouse’s signaling of a trend line moving away from asynchronous, bite-sized forms of impersonal communications (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok).

The hope of a revival of public intellectuals with wide-ranging expertise, wit, and showmanship (Isaiah Berlin, Christopher Hitchens, Camille Paglia, etc).