Philip Teale

To insulate ourselves from these seemingly guaranteed failures, Millennials, and Gen Z after us, adopted irony as a cultural strategy. Irony allowed us to continue life under late capitalism while psychologically sheltering ourselves from the demoralizing reality. Irony as culture became: “The band I like will inevitably sell out, so I might as wel

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You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.

Humor helps you see the familiar from a surprising new perspective.

It reminds you that there is no grand truth.

Any belief can be up-ended.

Every belief can be mocked.

Nobody knows anything.

See?

Laughing is subversive.

Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more