what’s the most quickly recurring talking point on twitter? I think it’s gifted kid discourse, I see it about every 2 months. For contrast, unpaid internships seem to be about once a year. There’s an intense “how many hours should you work a week” blowout about every 2 yrs
I know people talk about these things every day, but there’s also a sort of bigger/broader “wave” that the right posts hit + ride at the right time to reach substantially wider audiences
for those of ya'll asking about the gifted kid stuff – it goes on and on, tens of thousands of RTs and favs
(yea the halsey tweet is a false positive but, eh)
in a way people got fucked when they were told “don’t respect god” but they weren’t told what to respect instead. for me I respect what I call the light of human consciousness, which is basically kinda god with extra steps and without the coercive elements (implied or otherwise)
I want to try and play a game where I quote one tweet from myself from each year I've been on twitter, to assemble what I think is representative of the bigger long game I've been playing: