… “Journalists who no longer recognize the craft of journalism, and who see their job as patrolling the grounds with flashlights, hoping to catch other journalists in the act of doing journalism so they can blow their whistles and alert the other guards.” https://t.co/ypEvxplxk8
Some people can live in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Twitter but others will just burn out their outrage and alarm circuits. If everything's always Berlin 1932 the whole thing has diminishing returns over time.
"I don’t mean to be a bummer here. But it’s important to point out that we’re born in terror, we exist for no reason, we experience confusion and shame as children, we busily prepare ourselves for lives we don’t want or can’t have, we are forced to tak..." https://t.co/YrT6lhon2m
In a world that has lost all sense of proportion and perspective, the ability to make sloppy and outlandish comparisons suddenly accrues a use and market value it didn’t have before. Lacking any constraint, linguistic overreach comes to occupy every available semantic space.