Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@V0ldek @BlueMonday1984 Reading this list reminds me of a telling of Beauty and the Beast where she’s exploring the castle and each room is more beautiful than the last.
Every item in this list is like wandering a fever dream where each room is more ridiculous than the last.
Easily 50% of this list is unthinkable if you know anything about what the job entails.
But I think “writers” stands out because you can almost see their logic because of video games, a creative industry currently in a death spiral because everything is homogeneous wallpaper paste. This is total “head in the sand” treatment of that, like AAA sales aren’t plummeting and people aren’t flocking to indies. I mean all’s relative, but the conditions that let that happen do not exist for books and cannot be forced.