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Many “journalism” careers consist entirely of articles ripping into various people via the “take” format: “Bernie is cancelled...LeBron is done...fuck Coachella...The big problem with IKEA...this guy is garbage...P!nk is over...why all cars are awful...the sun sucks...”

I’m a fairly cynical guy who knows everyone has some angle or ulterior motive, but discovering a cache of 30,000 words of this kind of thumbsucking “marketplace of ideas” pessimism is still really something

Even if you’re just hustling this shit for the quick $100 hits (good for a cup of coffee in NYC) or that one viral Teen Vogue byline (I had one, not worth it), just dwelling in such a cesspool—even in a world that has always been the worst of all possible worlds—has to be rough

It’s not even very sincere pessimism—every theological system has had a built-in “everything is suffering, life is a vale of tears” mode since we invented wizards and shamans—but rather this kind of “here’s one more specific bad thing in an endless inductive now of bad things”

Sign me up! I'll even pay to work there, like so many millennial interns do