In a culture of convenience, where values are understood increasingly through their digital imprints, things feel nauseatingly 2D because they literally are.

It was a Kafka trap: True or not, denial only made you seem guilty.

People on social media are constantly trying to destigmatize being “try-hard,” because you can’t really be online without trying. But it will never work. It will always be more compelling to garner people’s admiration naturally than to do it on purpose, and the people best at that will always be the most interesting, culturally speaking.

People on social media are constantly trying to destigmatize being “try-hard,” because you can’t really be online without trying.

“Nobody does anything cool anymore, and everybody is afraid of everything,”

In our attempt to digitize everything, we’ve funneled all our attentions towards the unreal.

It will always be more compelling to garner people’s admiration naturally than to do it on purpose, and the people best at that will always be the most interesting, culturally speaking.