I thought it was just aging, but it’s a sharp cliff around 2015, with the great weirding and the beginnings of a discourse desert. There’s almost no good commentary on anything besides the culture wars, Trump etc starting ~2015. So my referential frame has stalled around then.
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The reasons my premium mediocre post (2017) has been the biggest hit of my career are: 5%: It’s actually good 20%: I’ve written very little like that since 2015 75%: I posted it during discourse desert, with nothing but culture war/Trump dreariness, where it came as a relief
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I just rewatched the Bruce Sterling "dark euphoria" talk and had that exact feeling, I realized I felt like it was from last year (aside from the Obama/Sarkozy references)
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