“Have I told you I can’t read contemporary novels anymore? I think it’s because I know too many of the people who write them. I see them all the time at festivals, drinking red wine and talking about who’s publishing who in New York. ... Why do they pretend to be obsessed with death and grief and fascism—when really they’re obsessed with whether... See more

We are systematically eradicating every single creature on the face of this planet except pigs, chickens and cows, while carrying out a generational scientific experiment on our children, in which we hook them up to an infinite digital dopamine drip from the day they’re born and see what happens. (So far, we’ve discovered that they don’t learn how... See more

Rupi Kaur, the most successful poet to have never actually read any poetry. Her books are read by people who introduce themselves by asking your star sign and then, before you can respond, immediately start talking about themselves for 45 minutes. She has sold over twelve million of them.

They go to parties and marry each other’s exes and write books about it, and then their friends all pretend those books are better than they actually are: this is the world.

Our culture seems to be spiraling into a feedback loop of homogenized thoughts and ideas, where originality is sidelined in favor of the predictable and the algorithmically optimized. In fact, one of those machines wrote the last 28 words, from “our culture seems” on.