I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
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thing i struggle w/ in these pieces is trying to provide/keep a sense of proportion in terms of the problem. increasingly i see myself as trying to report back from a specific culture/place/ideology. & this place is quite grim! so i don’t intend these pieces as doomerism but the problem is also real
again, it can be really hard to know how to keep all this in proportion but i also think we have enough examples from the last decade or so to see the ways that the most absurd and toxic elements of internet culture leak into broader culture. and so the idea is to try and trace/keep an eye on it
@cwarzel.bsky.social I think you have it backwards.
So much of Internet culture is simply coming to terms with and reflecting broader society. It's recognizing that in broader society the solutions to these problems are nowhere on the horizon, so internet culture is the effect, not the cause.
