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I’m surprised so many people are taking this at face value. It’s satire, right? This bit leans into it hard: > If it was raining, obviously, I couldn’t reasona
by majos 7y ago
I’m surprised so many people are taking this at face value. It’s satire, right? This bit leans into it hard:
> If it was raining, obviously, I couldn’t reasonably be expected to ride my bike. Or in the winter months when it’s a bit dark in the mornings, or when it got too cold, or when I was just a bit too tired. Let’s be reasonable here.
I guess it’s satirizing people who carve out tiny pockets of differentiation from others then mentally inflate it into some kind of deep uniqueness.
- frozenport 7y agoYes, although Jacque Derrida would allow the reading of a work to be decoupled from its writers intent.
- justwalt 7y agoThat’s how I interpreted it as well. I was laughing at multiple occasions. “I was in the throes of a lotus dream”
- tomatotomato37 7y agoTo be fair we are reaching a point where the lines between satire and reality are starting to blur a bit. I hope this is satire, but I'm not 100% sure.
- MadWombat 7y agoPoe's Law as applied to silicon valley hipsters?
- elil17 7y agoYeah no one unironically describes product launches as “orgasmic” (I hope...)