Excellent report Wendy. I never got people’s obsession with their phones in their faces watching other people’s lives. How about a little reality in people standing right next to you.
On Twitter, it was clear this guy was well known & controversial. Your insight is enlightening, thought-provoking and striking to me as someone who tended to disregard the relevance of his ignorant crudeness. Until now.
You have provided so much more to consider, particularly as related to alarming indicators of growing trends and sentiment that lead US down dark rabbit holes of radical threats we face today
Thoughtful analysis. Out of more than a little morbid curiosity, I looked the guy up on twitter. I hadn’t heard of him, and now I can’t unsee it. Tragic as that is for me, it gave me a better appreciation of your analysis. He really does collect attention like a pile of shit collects flies.
I agree with and extend your perspective on the bigger points you make, specifically around the grappling with social media’s hold on people. I think we are seeing a deep confusion between it as a means to an end versus an end in itself. Emotions are entertainment, cynicism is an attractive quality to the people who have it, and rationality or logic need not apply. It’s not sad, or happy, for me. I see parallels through time and history of the exact same mental disengagement in anything accountable - in life, work, family dysfunction, friends, marriages, intimate relationships, and the list goes on.
My central comment is: You write with precision and truth about a man who reflects a deeper cultural disease, one where anybody can join, shit on anyone else for any reason, and disengage without the slightest disruption to their sanguine state. It’s nauseating. It’s frustrating. It is also, in ways I’ve learned from people smarter than me by far, an opportunity for something. I just don’t know, honestly, what that is yet.
Excellent report Wendy. I never got people’s obsession with their phones in their faces watching other people’s lives. How about a little reality in people standing right next to you.
Thank you NightMaher, and thank you also for continued support of the work. This is why I do the work.
And he's a fake cowboy.
Hes much worse than that. But for whatever fucked up reason, hes loved
Read it
If it’s total dumbass’s , dirtbags, straight up idiots you know its Florida or Ohio first in line
On Twitter, it was clear this guy was well known & controversial. Your insight is enlightening, thought-provoking and striking to me as someone who tended to disregard the relevance of his ignorant crudeness. Until now.
You have provided so much more to consider, particularly as related to alarming indicators of growing trends and sentiment that lead US down dark rabbit holes of radical threats we face today
Every single fashie you will ever see, whether it's this joke of a man or Musk or Trump, is all hat, no cattle.
Folks.
this is a really good read and please repost
Thoughtful analysis. Out of more than a little morbid curiosity, I looked the guy up on twitter. I hadn’t heard of him, and now I can’t unsee it. Tragic as that is for me, it gave me a better appreciation of your analysis. He really does collect attention like a pile of shit collects flies.
I agree with and extend your perspective on the bigger points you make, specifically around the grappling with social media’s hold on people. I think we are seeing a deep confusion between it as a means to an end versus an end in itself. Emotions are entertainment, cynicism is an attractive quality to the people who have it, and rationality or logic need not apply. It’s not sad, or happy, for me. I see parallels through time and history of the exact same mental disengagement in anything accountable - in life, work, family dysfunction, friends, marriages, intimate relationships, and the list goes on.
My central comment is: You write with precision and truth about a man who reflects a deeper cultural disease, one where anybody can join, shit on anyone else for any reason, and disengage without the slightest disruption to their sanguine state. It’s nauseating. It’s frustrating. It is also, in ways I’ve learned from people smarter than me by far, an opportunity for something. I just don’t know, honestly, what that is yet.
Well said.
Thanks Carolyn, and thank you for support for the work also.