Adam Kotsko Quotes & Sayings

That is the great danger of meritocracy: the people who reach the top of the system are precisely the people who have most completely identified with the system and its demands, creating a vicious circle preventing any actual change. It is no accident that conservatives tend to employ the rhetoric of social mobility so readily, as social climbers generally do not ask questions about the ladder. — Adam Kotsko

It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes. — Adam Kotsko

White male hegemony may turn out to be finite, but white male creepiness is eternal. — Adam Kotsko

We ask 18-year-olds to make huge decisions about their career and financial future, when a month ago they had to ask to go to the bathroom. — Adam Kotsko

You can't have a "debate" with people who constantly tell crazy lies. Pretending you can only legitimates their crazy lies. — Adam Kotsko

In essence, Zizek's procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually "introducing" the project of transcendental phenomenology. The one thing that has changed is that Zizek is publishing his drafts as he goes. — Adam Kotsko

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in the latest styles from Old Navy, and laid him in a shopping cart, because they were waiting in line to get into Walmart. — Adam Kotsko