The real, unsettling mechanism of Fallon's banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act.
I assumed that I was voting for the songwriters who would be included in the list. But I now see that the experts consulted by the Times only got to make nominations. The final 30 names were chosen by six New York Times music critics. There never was a real vote.
The need for sense-making is greater than ever, but due to a half-decade of layoffs and shuttered publications, there is less and less journalism to make sense of.
I find myself exhausted by the way everyone processes political controversies these days, including warnings about a dire American future that are now a daily occurrence online.
A lot of the "Technological optimism" we see online is actually manufactured by those who have the most to gain and by various financial motives and incentives.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
