BAT essay ideas

essay on the “In Rainbows” experiment and how a lot of ppl get it wrong / see it as an unmitigated success

Byung-Chul Han becoming famous is hilarious and tragic - the very things he decries in his books are eating him up and consuming his ideas and even if he has nothing to do with it, he can't stop it from happening

devil's advocate - a story about the devil's actual attorney. "i'm a throwaway hypothetical for everyone, shorthand for 'hey lemme take the opposing view on this' but that's not what I do. night in and night out I have to defend Lucifer. sure the pay is good, fine, but..."