To me, the most infuriating part of people’s decline in media literacy is the increasingly common wholesale abandonment of the entire concept of subtext — whether it’s in fiction, nonfiction, or even everyday life. You analyze the implications and get accused of making stuff up.

Leave it to a bunch of children who’ve never worked a real job for single a day in their lives — and still haven’t graduated college — to come up with some obnoxious slave driving dystopian shit like this.

Thread: I've been thinking about what I find so tiresome and frustrating about some (not all!) pundits on the left these days. I guess this tweet is a good example. Here’s what happened: @willmacaskill published a fascinating book about the future of humanity. /1

lol i hate today's era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn't behave exactly as you'd wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn't text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he's just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don't do it anymore. someone isn't instantly available for you? disinterest. just... See more