Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
I feel compelled to repost a comment I&#x27;ve posted before, so here goes:<p>----------------------------------<p>Thinkpieces lately have had a trend of reaching harder and harder to link the news de jour to a higher, abstract concepts....The result feels hystrionic to me... it is just designed to raise the excitement for people in the correct echo chamber. By calling on increasingly abstract concepts the author can reign in an appeal to authority and emotion that has more appeal than actual facts and statistics.<p>The author, and his inward-looking media peers, are all drinking eachother&#x27;s Kool-Aid a bit too much. It&#x27;s like some sort of outrage porn that keeps getting remixed over and over again, and becoming some sort of fractal version of itself.<p>----------------------------------<p>This particular article is strange in the fact even though it presents a bunch of statistics, it doesn&#x27;t use them well to advance a cohesive argument- it mostly just goes on to state that everything sucks. It just throws spaghetti at the wall, to see what sticks in the mind of the reader, and anything that doesn&#x27;t stick is hoped to be given a fair pass. This is the sort of divisive thinking that does little to solve problems, because it is so engulfed in the turbulence of pessimistic rage that it cannot correctly identify just what the problem is, if it exists.