The Death of Cool
I think that this whole smartphone scrolling, content consuming, ubiquitous posting, Extremely Online thing is going to go the way of the Fedora, or the Marlboro smoked at cruising altitude in economy class. In the end it is all going to fade. This may not happen for a good number of years, but I truly believe it will happen. I think we’ll look bac... See more
Thomas J Bevan • The End of the Extremely Online Era
to the subject in a roundabout
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Some More Insight Into The Gen Z Coolness Crisis
There are four sort of low-level generational discourses circulating the web right now that I want to try and synthesize into a larger idea. There’s the weird backlash around the word “demure” going viral after a trans TikToker popularized it. There are millennials panicking that Gen Z thinks we all ... See more
There are four sort of low-level generational discourses circulating the web right now that I want to try and synthesize into a larger idea. There’s the weird backlash around the word “demure” going viral after a trans TikToker popularized it. There are millennials panicking that Gen Z thinks we all ... See more
The crystal cube of agony
The Age of Reorientation
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
The terrifying and also mundane forces that press on us every day eventually deceive us into viewing our lives through pessimistic, suspicious eyes. As happiness is treated like a rare luxury and compassion is supplanted by apathy and even brutality, the once-joyful and once-compassionate and once-idealistic among us choose a pose that’s above all ... See more