Melanie

“The kids of well-off parents, bored and dulled by easy pleasure, find that hit of dopamine every time they cancel a nobody or, better, a non-nobody on Twitter.
It's entirely possible that the misery junkies fueling cancel culture are doing it because they have nothing else going on in their lives. And that "nothing else" could be beyond their control-- consequences of a society that paradoxically offers dwindling opportunities for fulfillment despite offering huge opportunities for distraction.”
― Greg Gutfeld, The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help

“We’ve been lunching on a lie since high school. The lie was this: those wishing to take away your freedom would come in the form of some massive monolithic, soulless government. We had to worry about faceless bureaucrats and faceless, armed mobs with mysterious insignias busting our doors in the dead of night, scooping us out of our beds, where we’re vanned to reeducation camps somewhere underground, a place with no internet, no cable, no sushi—not unlike certain parts of New Jersey. Which would be fine with me, because I hate sushi. But the “no internet thing” would be a problem. Because I love cat videos.”
― Greg Gutfeld, The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help

“Disappointment comes from expectation,”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business