So, uh, 'I felt pride in the President of the US' is unacceptable and firing worthy. Unprintable slurs yelled repeatedly at kids on a student trip leads to 'discipline'
My boyfriend has been trying to kill my hope in people and change for the longest time. Not in a depressing way (that's hilarious) but in a "get with reality" way. I'm a huge empath with a bottomless pit of hope with no evidence that it makes a shred of difference and it causes me so much distress. The last 4 years nearly killed me, and I felt relief for Biden and now, just days later realizing that it's going to just be more of the same shit while we fucktards tear each other apart. The fact that one minute thing sends us into a rage while destruction on a grand scale makes us yawn is one of the things I can't get my head around most days. I'm a new subscriber and I find your writing strangely uplifting. Love it. It's the closest thing I've found that expresses how I feel most days. Thank you.
I just realized I thought YOU were AnonymousBosch. Jeezus. Nevermind, I applaud you both equally. And I bought both of YOUR books yesterday. I'm smarter than I look online I swear.
It really is nuts how refreshing to the reader and monetizeable for the writer just speaking aloud things everyone already knows and everyone already thinks but are completely ignored or derided by Serious TV People, is.
If Capitalism weren't a complete fucking fiction this 'segement' of the 'marketplace' would have been saturated for years now, but instead it's like ten folks with substacks, Discourse and Defector, and it's only after every possible old-media outlet they could have written for has been gutted for the copper plumbing by VC guys.
As a pissed off alienated pessimist it's nice to see a fellow miserablist buy a house on the strength of feeling bad. Ironically I don't word my thoughts good enough to make an honest living off it myself, because I didn't get the kind of degree that pays off in this instance; a poetry degree from Emerson. I mention that Capitalist dogma is total fucking fiction?
Not even sure! Both? I'm likewise NE Irish Catholic and couldn't be sincerely kind with a gun to my head.
I'm a STEM head and I do ok for myself cause the random talent I was assigned at birth is rewarded by the time and place I was randomly born into. But I don't pretend I'm some kind of chosen person the way business assholes do. It warms the cockles of my heart to see people who, handed a thriving business are unable to do any better than a Goodfellas-style bust-out on it while the kind of people they mock as 'underwater basket weaving majors' are about the only entrepreneurs making a product anyone wants, and growing faster with less infrastructure than any of these fourth-generation failkid inheritors could.
Emerson people I've met have always been quality. About the only Boston college I can say that about.
Capitalist dogma IS total fucking fiction but everyone carries on like it's the only thing that can save us. More "jobs". Why is America so stuck in the 1950's. I already know the answer. I used to be an evangelical optimist (God that must have been annoying for everyone around me) but I am embracing my newfound pessimism, it's so liberating once I got past the initial "wow we're fucked but you knew that so why are you so surprised cycle". Forced regular sobriety and the red pill. With the pandemic, I'm not able to go numb myself at the bar and discuss vapid office affairs and I'm thankful for that, it was a gargantuan waste of time and money. (I miss it at times lol). Anyway I wish more people would read what you're putting out, it's as important as a life changing album. I'm going to buy your books as well. Please don't stop writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/new-york-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-jr-not-fired-racial-slur-claims-student-trip
So, uh, 'I felt pride in the President of the US' is unacceptable and firing worthy. Unprintable slurs yelled repeatedly at kids on a student trip leads to 'discipline'
My boyfriend has been trying to kill my hope in people and change for the longest time. Not in a depressing way (that's hilarious) but in a "get with reality" way. I'm a huge empath with a bottomless pit of hope with no evidence that it makes a shred of difference and it causes me so much distress. The last 4 years nearly killed me, and I felt relief for Biden and now, just days later realizing that it's going to just be more of the same shit while we fucktards tear each other apart. The fact that one minute thing sends us into a rage while destruction on a grand scale makes us yawn is one of the things I can't get my head around most days. I'm a new subscriber and I find your writing strangely uplifting. Love it. It's the closest thing I've found that expresses how I feel most days. Thank you.
thanks so much Valerie I'm glad you're here.
I just realized I thought YOU were AnonymousBosch. Jeezus. Nevermind, I applaud you both equally. And I bought both of YOUR books yesterday. I'm smarter than I look online I swear.
It really is nuts how refreshing to the reader and monetizeable for the writer just speaking aloud things everyone already knows and everyone already thinks but are completely ignored or derided by Serious TV People, is.
If Capitalism weren't a complete fucking fiction this 'segement' of the 'marketplace' would have been saturated for years now, but instead it's like ten folks with substacks, Discourse and Defector, and it's only after every possible old-media outlet they could have written for has been gutted for the copper plumbing by VC guys.
As a pissed off alienated pessimist it's nice to see a fellow miserablist buy a house on the strength of feeling bad. Ironically I don't word my thoughts good enough to make an honest living off it myself, because I didn't get the kind of degree that pays off in this instance; a poetry degree from Emerson. I mention that Capitalist dogma is total fucking fiction?
haha is this a compliment or a dragging?
Not even sure! Both? I'm likewise NE Irish Catholic and couldn't be sincerely kind with a gun to my head.
I'm a STEM head and I do ok for myself cause the random talent I was assigned at birth is rewarded by the time and place I was randomly born into. But I don't pretend I'm some kind of chosen person the way business assholes do. It warms the cockles of my heart to see people who, handed a thriving business are unable to do any better than a Goodfellas-style bust-out on it while the kind of people they mock as 'underwater basket weaving majors' are about the only entrepreneurs making a product anyone wants, and growing faster with less infrastructure than any of these fourth-generation failkid inheritors could.
Emerson people I've met have always been quality. About the only Boston college I can say that about.
Capitalist dogma IS total fucking fiction but everyone carries on like it's the only thing that can save us. More "jobs". Why is America so stuck in the 1950's. I already know the answer. I used to be an evangelical optimist (God that must have been annoying for everyone around me) but I am embracing my newfound pessimism, it's so liberating once I got past the initial "wow we're fucked but you knew that so why are you so surprised cycle". Forced regular sobriety and the red pill. With the pandemic, I'm not able to go numb myself at the bar and discuss vapid office affairs and I'm thankful for that, it was a gargantuan waste of time and money. (I miss it at times lol). Anyway I wish more people would read what you're putting out, it's as important as a life changing album. I'm going to buy your books as well. Please don't stop writing.