Somewhere in the past decade or two (pick your own cultural ruin-marker), it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civi...

“Somewhere in the past decade or two (pick your own cultural ruin-marker), it stopped being a side quirk that people don’t listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse of attention, curiosity, and the basic mammalian ability to register, or have any interest whatsoever in, another person’s interior life.”

  • X@piefed.worldEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    Somewhere between the sixth algorithmic outrage of the morning and the ninth “you’ll-never-believe-this” clip of the afternoon, people forgot how to do the slow, unprofitable work of letting someone else’s words actually hit their bloodstream.

    This is where I popped smoke for an evac. I know this writing style, have seen it before countless times on countless other blogs, and it’s trying too hard to be edgy and angry. There’s most certainly a demographic for this, and author is definitely writing to that demographic, and I’m not it.