I really hope all of you are doing well. I write these way ahead of time, so the Delta variant of Covid may be a distant memory by the time you get this. But something tells me that won’t be the case.
From Eric Barker’s book, Barking Up the Wrong Tree:
I know plenty of people for whom grit is a liability because it allows them to stick with something that makes them or others miserable and towards no long-term good aim.
I love the books in the 33 1/3 series. The best quote ever is from Carl Wilson’s book about Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love album:
…the most wholly repellent woman ever to sing songs of love…
This is a very accurate reflection of my feelings about the Internet at large:
This is all exacerbated by the fact that the current state of the Internet and social media essentially renders it an emotional outlet plugged directly into each person’s id. It rewards extreme behavior, and people crave to be a part of something bigger than themselves, so of course they get pulled into taking part in a mob of like-minded individuals who are all saying similar things. It’s easy to get swept up in a sea of validation. I found myself there so many times, and only later, once the storm dissipated, did I sit back and consider the consequences of my own actions in that situation.