beautifully said

maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw

Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial

Vibes, once warm and fuzzy, were now seismic tectonic plates beneath the feet of culture.

Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why. It’s the calling known as education, which the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak once defined as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.”

And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.