This also seems like an offshoot of the "you have to stay on Twitter and expose yourself to a daily dose of fascism, otherwise how will you know what the opposition thinks and what they're doing." As if their thoughts and playbook aren't a matter we have 70 year old books on, which we've read.

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It seemed like you said the only way to understand it was to use it. I don’t want to use it. I don’t want data centers in my backyard. I don’t want to celebrate something that stole my work and several of my friends’. I don’t want something evil billionaires are propping up.

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whereas my brain is going to compress all of this in three months into “Ella McCay not only was governor of the state she grew up in, but also had a really big country song”

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I just don’t think a lot of people have adjusted to the new reality where the monoculture is just sports, major political figures, and a certain set of transmedia celebrities

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Businesses that play music mostly switching to royalty-free playlists also killed off one of the main ways you’d ambiently encounter current pop music

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