things i always knew to be true but other people said better

If you are an adult who still wants to write, it’s because you want to be heard. Feeling as if no one hears you, for a prolonged period of time, can lead to a kind of desperation, a kind of intense entitlement.

“The old people? They die. Now it’s young people with the social media. After corona, pew! The internet!”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”

Anthropology teaches us that every society tells stories about why inequality is natural and inevitable.

Painting the Deep South as an embarrassing cultural backwater is one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice among elites. It’s not just tolerated - it’s venerated.

nothing has actually changed other than your awareness

The very word slip suggests some sort of movement; you can't slip, after all, if you’re standing still.

If no one wrote about romance or frivolity or joy or fantasy because times were too dark then we have nothing but despairing, didactic dramas. Making sense of the world takes so many forms! Some of them just engage the lineage of despair more explicitly than others.

People without culture will never significantly change the culture and I stand by that.