Irreconcilable Slut Part 2 ((full)) -

The algorithm will call you back. It will tell you that you are missing out. That the discourse is happening. That the new season drops in three days.

My father had three channels. If nothing was on, he went to the garage and built a birdhouse. He was bored for roughly four hours a week. During those four hours, he learned to fix a carburetor, wrote a bad poem, and once just sat in the dark thinking about his own mortality. irreconcilable slut part 2

Today, we do not have "free time." We have content debt . The algorithm will call you back

Entertainment is no longer the thing you do to rest. It is the thing you do to escape the crushing awareness that you are not doing enough . It is a second job. A digital shift. You clock in to the streaming service not to relax, but to lower the unread badge count. Here is the deeper, irreconcilable wound. That the new season drops in three days

This is the second part of our irreconcilable difference with the modern world. Not politics. Not faith. Not work.

Watch a bad movie. Don’t review it. Don’t tweet about it. Just watch it and forget it.