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Part-Time Jackass, Full-Time Chad—This Week On VICE: Members Only

One writer’s odyssey into the strange new connections between attraction, entertainment, and the algorithm.

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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see. Jordan B. Peterson once said this about a photo of the sun hitting a bottle of Evian on an in-flight meal tray, and—despite being a misquoting of Matisse—it’s probably one of his more positive contributions to the popular consciousness. As a basic philosophy it encourages finding the beauty in things designed to blend into the sludge of everyday life. Granted, this is also what people on DMT will tell you while staring intently at the crevasse between two sofa cushions. Still, it’s good to find new and unorthodox ways of looking at things—and there has been a lot of that this week at VICE: Members Only, the paywalled section of VICE.com, where dispatches from inside North Korea sit alongside photos of Ukrainian goths and a tell-all from a cocaine addict who used to work for the United Nations.

For example, have you considered that a delightful couple’s vacation........

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