anyone else have the sense that no one is particularly trying to be smart or broadly convincing online anymore retrospectively it feels like there was a shift from a high classical spirit in the blog era to romantic tweeting during the calamity epoch and now it's just--inert?
like there's not really a sense that episteme will move any minds. no one believes in that stuff anymore. so why bother thinking people are exhausted from the revolutionary wars and their hearts are hard; no alpha in poetry all this set against a backdrop of endless video slop
one imagines that this is what it might have been like to live through the 70s
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