ABIDING EOS

From my entry “No Mob Rule,” posted two days ago: “I cannot stress how careful we must be here, because we live in a nation of professional outrage. The far reaching effects of social media can kill a career, a life, a reputation, with just a single shout that spreads across the entire platform. Suicides will happen as human beings face throngs of angry commenters, who will not keep it strictly on social media.” Well, we’ve seen our first example…

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In a particularly dark moment of my anxiety today, I started thinking about how shallow everything appears to be. I’m not talking about gossip magazines, though those have always been a fountain of surface level critique, but rather how everything from media to politics are a mile wide and a centimeter deep. Our culture, and by that I mean western culture, has adopted this prima facie approach to everything. I worry, because it’s easy to distract people who engage in…

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