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https://twitter.com/TheFP/status/1777667284720337227The writer, who is an NPR journo himself, pinpoints the big shift in how media perceived their job: from delivering relevant and useful information, to preaching moral and ideological instruction.
https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1770458504890859831This can produce all sorts of novel artifacts that have the shape and texture of "new" material, but they aren't generative in and of themselves; they are stand-ins for the real thing, shadows of them
https://twitter.com/FischerKing64/status/1664373027453407232The most affluent people I know have a lot of kids. I know several high net worth couples with 5 or more kids. There's no fertility crisis among the ultra rich, precisely bc they are not constrained by wealth and can provide maximal attention and resources to any number of kids
https://twitter.com/thombrady5/status/1731922883461427436What this means for a reader is that you get drowned in a sea of noise, with the only signals coming from the NYT Best Seller List and/other what lands on airport bookstore shelves. But all of the good stuff, the real quality, is not the stuff on the best seller lists…
https://twitter.com/joshlekach/status/1698332586211217456A few comments like this: why would you marry someone who’s crazy/neurotic? I’m saying she’s not any of those things, or not moreso than your average woman. She’s telling herself a story in order to *not* go crazy. Women like this are not unsalvageable
https://twitter.com/jsnino2003/status/1698718270252007626
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1697235917386211657"I don't need your coastal faggy affectations" etc. This is prevailing attitude in much of red America, and understandably so, but it is self-defeating, low and narrow, and is grounded in an inferiority complex rather than any noble principle of resistance
https://twitter.com/Mangan150/status/1696875882919710747X-ray techs, HR, clerical, low-end white collar––very meat of the bell curve, modal heartland white woman––underfucked, over-medicated, smoke tons of weed, downward marriage prospects, bio clock ticking fast, getting numbed out on meds to cope.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1694896893644407063
https://twitter.com/scottmgreer/status/1694487693353246928This is a good question. What constitutes an ethnos? My answer is that until you have "white restaurants" or "white music" you're not really there yet.
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1694738148725600264?s=20
https://twitter.com/rollingstone/status/1684550056748126212The culture is dead. Cooked through completely. Every inch of it has been colonized to sell competing kitsch merch. Every pocket of free, unclaimed territory has been processed through the kitsch filter. This kind of deep woods grit-country is just the latest casualty. Sad!
https://twitter.com/janecoaston/status/1669718154010828802That sentence is a stand-alone paragraph at the center of the book.
https://twitter.com/sethweathers/status/1646166561919492099If you are going to take the time to actually build out parallel markets in whatever product you might as well take the time to make something good, something of value, something that once the news-cycle is over and our goldfish brain sets in people will still want to consume