To try to write online, more specifically, is to operate on a set of assumptions that are already dubious when limited to writers and even more questionable when turned into a categorical imperative for everyone on the internet: the assumption that speech has an impact, that it’s something like action; the assumption that it’s fine or helpful or even ideal to be constantly writing down what you think.
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“The I in the Internet” from Trick Mirror, p. 17
By Jia Tolentino
Published 2019
By Jia Tolentino
Published 2019