On Winning Second Place in the Passage Prize Short Story Category, and other mostly just crazy thoughts because I had to write this over like forty-five sessions while burping my son
"It’s all becoming a giant, soul-sucking bureaucracy where everyone wants to be a brand instead of a real-life person with a bunch of narrative-breaking idiosyncrasies." This, right here, is why I've become such a digital recluse in recent years. Even the other day while planning a novel, I found myself caught in the 'does this have enough diversity?' trap, when I am only in the PLANNING stages. The longer you spend entrenched among those groups in social media, the more the constant patrols for wrongthink infect your brain and gnaw away at creative ideas.
It isn't fun, it sure as hell is not productive, but it feels that especially on Twitter (following the great tumblr migration, especially), it has become a mockery of recreational debate.
I think there’s something very unique about our present time that encourages people to never grow up (which I felt myself getting pulled into at the old blog) or to never ever be of public service where you can enforce rational behavior over mobs. We’ve lost the idea there’s a difference between personal and important.
"It’s all becoming a giant, soul-sucking bureaucracy where everyone wants to be a brand instead of a real-life person with a bunch of narrative-breaking idiosyncrasies." This, right here, is why I've become such a digital recluse in recent years. Even the other day while planning a novel, I found myself caught in the 'does this have enough diversity?' trap, when I am only in the PLANNING stages. The longer you spend entrenched among those groups in social media, the more the constant patrols for wrongthink infect your brain and gnaw away at creative ideas.
It isn't fun, it sure as hell is not productive, but it feels that especially on Twitter (following the great tumblr migration, especially), it has become a mockery of recreational debate.
I think there’s something very unique about our present time that encourages people to never grow up (which I felt myself getting pulled into at the old blog) or to never ever be of public service where you can enforce rational behavior over mobs. We’ve lost the idea there’s a difference between personal and important.