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I remember reading that, back in the day. I wonder what Fisher would think of Russell Brand these days. That dude has really gone off the deep end, it's sad.
by ant_li0n 5y ago
I remember reading that, back in the day. I wonder what Fisher would think of Russell Brand these days. That dude has really gone off the deep end, it's sad.
Also in all these critiques of wokeness, the conversation always seems to involve Twitter. Maybe Twitter, the realm of hot-takes and snappy one-liners, just isn't a place where people should spend their time?
- psyc 5y agoThere was Tumblr before it (and LiveJournal before that), and TikTok after it. Twitter, however, seems to be better suited in its fundamental design for war ala call-outs and brigading.
- theobeers 5y agoThe struggle to maintain a grounded perspective, through the Trump era, through the pandemic, has been too much for most people. I still think Brand's heart is in the right place… probably. Fisher stayed true to the end, but I have to wonder if that's only because he took his life in January 2017. It's hard to think of social/political commentators who haven't succumbed, to some extent, to the brain-melting effects of the last several years. (Maybe Žižek? He's no more or less heterodox today than he was a decade ago.)