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Was this "article" written by an edgy teenager who just had their first quarter-life crisis? The writer just comes across as a needlessly cynical asshole, and n
by wackget 5y ago
Was this "article" written by an edgy teenager who just had their first quarter-life crisis? The writer just comes across as a needlessly cynical asshole, and not in an enlightened stoic way.
If it was meant to be a comment on the rehearsed and predictable nature of how society deals with grief then it didn't work. I'm pretty sure it was just an excuse for a guy who hates everyone and has zero emotional intelligence to get paid to write a mildly sociopathic rant.
- pavlov 5y agoDavid Sedaris is a very established humorist (although his sister Amy is certainly more famous). I suppose your description — “a guy who hates everyone and has zero emotional intelligence gets paid to write a mildly sociopathic rant” — is on the average a quite accurate representation of how one became successful as an American comedian in the 1990s.
- spoonjim 5y agoMore like a 60-year-old needlessly cynical asshole: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/now-we-are-five https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/now-we-are-fiv...