I think I just have to learn the skills of radiation-hardened writing
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The easiest kind of writing to do to today is with a comfortably-smug vibe, with a posture of “I’m more nihilistic than thou” greater acceptance of apocalyptic futures than your reader.pic.twitter.com/msSkswNWtK
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Writing something that’s not a move in the culture wars, yet informed by the context of it, and supplying some non-comfortably-smug energy is a bit like trying to pull an airplane out of stall by going into a steep dive to gain airspeed to pull up again
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Of course all this is only true if you want to do broad appeal public interest writing. Narrow-interest stuff for people privileged enough to have secured retreat zones from zeitgeist is no different from 2014/15. Reviewing the latest iPhone is the same as it used to be I think.
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