A sensible, clear take. It doesn't change anything. I guess all we can hope for is more and more people arriving at their own clear takes. That won't make the question go away. (It will always be among the infinite questions that can be asked, but regrettably, prominent as we are reminded of it by visible cue...by skin.) Optimistically, I hope it becomes widely tiresome. And then all we'll still be left with is our peeves and the cues that remind us of them. Is it optimistic to think we may tire of our own peeves? (Probably.) So many years gone by. Only a few left. I'm exhausted by this topic, and yet, still interested. Go figure. (Sensible takes still help to calm my restless soul, like payment of periodic dues that grant me license to look elsewhere and not waste more time on this subject, for a while.)
I think for a goodly number of people, it's already tiresome. It's weird that I've been particularly tired without feeling personally put upon going on five years now. The trick of course is not to worry about the well-thought out concept to go viral, but to negotiate your way into places that value integrity and realness. The process of purging stupidity and foolishness from your life should never become too exhausting. That's how you survive the Gulag - not like we have a physical one so much as a psychological space that, as Hind notes well, seduces us into accepting what we know is not true. That's our weakness. It's a weakness we cannot afford.
A sensible, clear take. It doesn't change anything. I guess all we can hope for is more and more people arriving at their own clear takes. That won't make the question go away. (It will always be among the infinite questions that can be asked, but regrettably, prominent as we are reminded of it by visible cue...by skin.) Optimistically, I hope it becomes widely tiresome. And then all we'll still be left with is our peeves and the cues that remind us of them. Is it optimistic to think we may tire of our own peeves? (Probably.) So many years gone by. Only a few left. I'm exhausted by this topic, and yet, still interested. Go figure. (Sensible takes still help to calm my restless soul, like payment of periodic dues that grant me license to look elsewhere and not waste more time on this subject, for a while.)
I think for a goodly number of people, it's already tiresome. It's weird that I've been particularly tired without feeling personally put upon going on five years now. The trick of course is not to worry about the well-thought out concept to go viral, but to negotiate your way into places that value integrity and realness. The process of purging stupidity and foolishness from your life should never become too exhausting. That's how you survive the Gulag - not like we have a physical one so much as a psychological space that, as Hind notes well, seduces us into accepting what we know is not true. That's our weakness. It's a weakness we cannot afford.
And yours as well. Thanks for the shout out!