I really don’t know how so many people have so much to say on so many topics.
I was once asked “has anyone ever told you you’re extremely opinionated?” and I think about that fairly often. I assume it means I’m an opinionated person.
If so, the above statement all the more shocking. I’m opinionated, and I feel as if I really don’t have many interesting things to talk about. I’m just sort of a guy.
and yet, there’s many people out there blasting thousands of words into the digital void every day. and it makes me wonder, how many people are just articulated every schizo-coded neural signal that reaches the threshold of excitation.
I think — and this has proven to be particularly the case with social media platforms — but I think when people have big words and facts and data and citations, they get really good at putting stuff together, but without much meaning. it very much is like a monkey smashing a keyboard, except the audience is also monkeys who are kind of, but not 100% sure, what the symbols being produced by the keyboard monkey mean. the result is that we often catch ourselves nodding along with something that sounds logical and rational and articulate and educated and academic and it turns out it’s just a big fucking retarded stupid ass nothingburger.
we need a slur for this type of person. a sort of reactionary contrarian philosophical wanna-be. the type of person who is semantically literate but episodically inept. all filler, no thriller. all algo, no story.
goodnight.