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  • Andrei Draganescu Avatar

    How to #cancel Amazon: stop buying from Amazon. How to cancel human beings: create monster stories, trash legacies, erase their names from books, rewrite history, reinterpret everything they said, launch media storms to filter anything contradicting narrative. Hmmmm.

    How people cancel people: stop replying to their texts. How media cancels people: constantly roll non-news about person, make up lies by omission or outraging interpretations in opinion editorials, obsessively associate person to undesirable anything, be relentless.

    How citizens cancel politicians: vote them out. How politicians cancel politicians: sex scandals, fake pious poses, dig trash from forgotten history on friendly media, sickeningly oppose good things to make them look bad, sex scandals.

  • Andrei Draganescu Avatar
    And, in the end, it simply isn’t worth
       Your while to try and clean your life away.
    You can’t. For, everything you do or say
       Is there, forever. It leaves evidence.
    In fact it’s really only common sense;
       There’s no such thing as nothing, not at all.
    It may be really very, very small
       But it’s still there. In fact I think I’d guess
    That “no” does not exist. There’s only “yes”.

    Yes (2005)

  • Andrei Draganescu Avatar

    I sometimes feel that with “status” comes the permission to weave phrases and the patience reading them requires. If people think you’re having enough authority, they’ll have more patience for you to explain.

    For everyone else, we require a sort of grunt writing style. Arguments like “people don’t have time”, “conclusion first”, short sentences, shorter sentences!, be concise and so on, are all super common.

    What would we want more? Clarity or simplicity?

    I agree that shortform and on topic clarity is a huge helper, but I feel there are countless more times where not treating things like fleeting feed items gives one’s brain the chance to be bright.