Writer's Diary

5/12/24

Playwrights and comedians have an outsized influence, and responsibility now, because they still practice off-line forms of artful discourse and social commentary. Anything on a screen, with a like button and comment thread below it is fated to envelopment but a deep and abiding stupidity.

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The modern urban liberal/progressive: cycles of ennervation followed by rage followed by melancholy.

The modern post-liberal/pseudo-conservative: repressed loneliness papered over by childish displays of personal power and masculine prowess or feminine femininity.