Michael Ventura

1 week ago | almendron.com | Michael Ventura

En una entrevista de este año con Joe Rogan, Elon Musk dijo, en una ocurrencia, que “la debilidad fundamental de la civilización occidental es la empatía”. Parecía culparla, en parte, del deterioro de la vitalidad cultural de Estados Unidos. Dijo que creía en la empatía, pero que los woke la habían “convertido en un arma”. A pesar de su desdén por la empatía, Musk sabe usarla muy bien en su propio beneficio.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Ventura

En una entrevista de este año con Joe Rogan, Elon Musk dijo, en una ocurrencia, que "la debilidad fundamental de la civilización occidental es la empatía". Parecía culparla, en parte, del deterioro de la vitalidad cultural de Estados Unidos. Dijo que creía en la empatía, pero que los woke la habían "convertido en un arma". A pesar de su desdén por la empatía, Musk sabe usarla muy bien en su propio beneficio.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Ventura

In an interview earlier this year with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk quipped that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." He seemed to blame it, in part, for the decline of America's cultural vitality. He said he believed in empathy but cast it as being "weaponized" by the woke. For all his derision of empathy, Mr. Musk is quite good at employing it for his own needs. In fact, I'd argue he's one of the most effective empathic operators in modern business and public life.

Feb 29, 2024 | austinchronicle.com | Michael Ventura |Jay Trachtenberg

Novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Michael Ventura is no stranger to the ways of Hollywood. His nonfiction books include Cassavetes Directs: John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams and Marilyn Monroe: From Beginning to End, and he worked as a film critic for the LA Weekly, a publication he co-founded in 1978. Closer to home, many of us here in Austin know him for his biweekly column, “Letters at 3am,” which ran in this publication for over two decades, through 2014.

Sep 28, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Michael Ventura |Tom Crider |Naomi Petersen |Jeanne Bryner

Mark Leviton’s September interview with Dacher Keltner explores awe, including its physical and psychological benefits. This month’s archive selections expound on the different ways we experience it — whether profound, unexpected, or painful. Take care and read well, Your friends at The Sun Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories Homage to a Sorcerer About a year later, the woman . . . sent me a pamphlet that Carlos [Castaneda] had printed privately. He’d requested she send it on to me.