Coddled Affluent Professional

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I love Hunter - his authenticity is refreshing and he never pretended to be anything he wasn’t. If I was a troubled rich kid I hope that I would have the courage and good sense to be like Hunter rather than try to *make the world a better place.*

In my early teen years in suburban Illinois, during that purgatorial time when your hormones are screaming but you don’t have a driver’s license yet, a group of us would pass the time roller-skating in our friend Tara’s basement while listening to heavy metal. We liked Black…

Libs will tell you how important their politics are to them, but whatever the issue is the odds are if they had a couple kids or lifted weights or became skinnier or made some money they’d care 90% less.

It’s a weird mating dance: to be attractive to the Brooklyn Woman, the Brooklyn Man has to act ashamed of himself for just existing, this some how assuages the guilt and discomfort the Brooklyn Woman feels from being so reliably attracted to the white Brooklyn Man.

A move from individual "terror Gothic" to collective "Apocalyptic Gothic." Terror Gothic no longer meets the needs of our culture mired in a crisis of identity & meaning. Something collective is needed.

The whole anxiety angle seems like such a funny maneuver. It's like those crows that learned to fake injuries to get fed. But the crows are a bunch of horny, effete liberal guys from the UES who are using the women's therapy-coded thinking against them.

I wonder how much social dysfunction is downstream of decreased alcohol consumption. When I was younger and single it was hard not to enjoy dating, sitting in a bar or restaurant having drinks and chatting. Even if you didn’t hit it off with someone it was preferable to not…

Basically all of the ideological-historical programming of the past decade is designed to flatter credulous, curiosity-lacking midwits. If you have any interest and scrutinize any of this stuff the veneer comes right off and you realize it’s all nonsense.

NYT formalizes buzz, the formality becomes an ideal, the ideal is realized in places where this is all new, exciting, cool, and meanwhile the buzz moves on. Cycle of life, although hopefully the next cool buzzy thing isn’t “hate everyone and d_e alone.” x.com/TheAgeofShoddy…

There’s now a whole journalism sub-genre where people are warming over dumbed down versions of Red Scare takes from 3 or 4 years ago where Anna and Dasha predicted these precise sorts of dissatisfactions between men and women that everyone got very angry at and screamed about at…

This article is interesting cuz the women don’t seem particularly interested in any of the men they’re pursuing just in the idea of a relationship. The men are probably a bit more honest with themselves about how they’re just not that into her but have to couch it in therapyspeak…

It's unequivocally peak human experience and the framing of it as an onerous burden is a conspiracy against humanity that could only succeed in a world in which florid narcissism had already become endemic. To miss out on it is to be absolutely diminished in a way that nothing…

I was attending an event in my home town of St. Louis at Washington university. The speaker opened the event with something I had previously never heard; a land acknowledgment that we were standing on historic Osage land. Not far from there in the unaffiliated Washington state…

Richard Nixon describing the 1960s

Polyamory is interesting insofar that it demonstrates how useful invoking therapeutic self entitlement can be in avoiding basic adult moral obligations. Joan Didion in her famous essay, On Self Respect, composed at age 27(!) wrote: ‘Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect…

Never underestimate a vengeful drug addict with a full blanket pardon.