Whataboutism

If you want to follow me, you can find me on the devil’s playground (Instagram) at firesignemoji. Before signing off, I just want to say: everyone should do a little more critical thinking. Like, generally think before you speak.

If you don’t know something— look it up, read about t, ask somebody, damn! Knowledge is power and there will be no Canva... See more

Welcome to 'What's the point?' syndrome: a collective exhaustion, a cross-generational yawning nihilism in the face of what feels like an insurmountable barrage of bad news. 

worry that the persecution complex that drives so much social-media discourse is robbing us of the ability to have productive discussions—about what it really means for a woman to be in control of her image or to “own” her sexuality. Is that even possible in this patriarchal, profit-obsessed society? Great art requires artists, of course, but it al... See more

Yet, instead of just avoiding the 24-hour traumatic news cycle, some people are affixing this nihilism to their world view entirely; there is a sense of not caring about our futures, careers, or anything in general. This mindset is becoming increasingly prevalent among younger generations.

Of course we're all victims of the biggest perpetrators of this uncaring era, as the Trump administration declares "Who Cares?" to vast swaths of the federal government, to public health, to immigrant families, to college students, to you, to me.

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.

The lack of nuance between the two main camps—“yas kween!” and “stone her to death!”—was dispiriting. It reveals a worrying decline in media literacy in which social media encourages a flattened view, where moral righteousness and absolutism are projected onto complicated issues. If the purpose of art is to spark debate, Carpenter has certainly suc... See more