Wonder how much of the “Nothing matters and I can’t care about anything” blues is a result of the (imo fake) idea that people should care about big vague important abstractions instead of real specific things
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Replying to @literalbanana
today i was thinking about how the ambition to 'Change the World™' is a really new & bizarre thing for people to aspire to. literal maniac shit.
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Replying to @clever_metaname
I’m knee-jerk tempted to connect it back to the religious conversion waves of the 19th century
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Replying to @literalbanana
oh woah, of course! that's a really good angle. here i was thinking along basic bitch globalism, industrialization lines. would love to see an elaboration on this in the future. do i detect the scent of a blog post on the horizon?
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Replying to @clever_metaname
maybe a good topic! hadn’t connected it at all before your tweet
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