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I don't think that's the way you're supposed to read it? I think you're supposed to read it as, the trendy extremes tell you something about a place, even if th
by dkarl 6mo ago
I don't think that's the way you're supposed to read it? I think you're supposed to read it as, the trendy extremes tell you something about a place, even if the details are silly and ephemeral. People with no filter, no shame, no interest in correctness or consequences, and no pole star except trends are like a cartoon guide to the trends and the mentality driving them.
I think the author would agree with most of what you wrote.
- cyanydeez 6mo agothe last decade of journalism has taken two comments on twitter to claim social zeitgeist.
- CatMustard 6mo agoMaybe in a world as culturally-fractured as ours two comments on twitter is as close to a zeitgest as you can get. Maybe. Personally I'd say it'd take at least 5.
- cyanydeez 6mo agoJust not true; while the journalists are doing this tweet thing, they're consistently ignore things like the epstein files.