Hello friends-- We live in an era of nihilistic thirst. People keep begging their favorite celebrities to run them over with cars and inflict grievous bodily harm. It’s a joke and also an expression of ambient mortal dread that comes from living in a rapidly warming world whose social networks and actual human infrastructure are failing. Or, I guess, it’s maybe more accurate to say that those who have felt secure now feel less so, and we’re all horny for destruction and devastation. It feels like for the first time in a long time, the society in which I now operate has freed up some space for the discussion of glancing, casual desire for people who have had fewer opportunities to do so in public without grave consequences to their personal or professional lives. It seems like a miracle that people can log on to one of the world’s largest social networking sites and beg Cate Blanchett to put her heel to the back of their necks without worrying about getting fired or having their children taken away. We can beg Cardi B to literally remove our insides and choke us with them, and no one is going to have us arrested.
IS IT THIRST OR MORTAL DREAD?
IS IT THIRST OR MORTAL DREAD?
IS IT THIRST OR MORTAL DREAD?
Hello friends-- We live in an era of nihilistic thirst. People keep begging their favorite celebrities to run them over with cars and inflict grievous bodily harm. It’s a joke and also an expression of ambient mortal dread that comes from living in a rapidly warming world whose social networks and actual human infrastructure are failing. Or, I guess, it’s maybe more accurate to say that those who have felt secure now feel less so, and we’re all horny for destruction and devastation. It feels like for the first time in a long time, the society in which I now operate has freed up some space for the discussion of glancing, casual desire for people who have had fewer opportunities to do so in public without grave consequences to their personal or professional lives. It seems like a miracle that people can log on to one of the world’s largest social networking sites and beg Cate Blanchett to put her heel to the back of their necks without worrying about getting fired or having their children taken away. We can beg Cardi B to literally remove our insides and choke us with them, and no one is going to have us arrested.