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We've become the saddest sort of hedonist culture, the kind that develops because caring about anything else in any way that elevates you as an individual designates you prey for the crowd's hungry maw
If you care about children, become a teacher — not a parent. If you care about ideas, join a book club — not a think tank. If you want to make life better for people, become a doctor — not an entrepreneur. All must be socially regulated. All gates must be kept
Join the Fight for 15! Because the corporate overlords who you hate must not be stopped, only forced to pay enough to keep the lights on while you drink yourself to death amidst the realization that society thinks you're a cog that functions below the cost of keeping you going
I think you know something is wrong when the most you can do is carry a mass-print sign somebody else handed you while chanting a slogan somebody else is shouting through a megaphone. But you're a good cog, and you can't quite put a name to the miasma gnawing on you
It's not many generations ago that we were basically a loose-knit nation of criminally independent scofflaws. Now those people are nutcases we laugh at while our children hang themselves in their closets and we fantasize about the ~10 years we'll get between retirement & death
A puzzle that irked me when I was younger: why do people kill themselves? Why don't they run away? Show up in a new town with a new identity? Rob a bank? Try heroin? Shouldn't anything be on the table? I didn't understand that if they still had any such spark, they could live
This reflects a larger confusion, btw: that maybe more money (rob a bank) or euphoric brain chemistry (heroin) would help. Maybe they would, for some. But I now think a sense of inescapable, universal personal impotence is the brainworm that's rotting most of us out
Your first tweet is basically the plot of “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace. It’s dated in some ways but he nails down the dynamic of performative detached irony, even before the age of social media. It’s both hilarious and a bit of work to get through.
Yeah, if people are sufficiently belligerent, they can always be blocked. It depends on who you're talking to or where. Twitter is okay, esp if you have a big following, but big ideas deserve a better platform to be expressed in the first place.
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