“This whole unemployment porn genre is honestly starting to creep me out to a very high degree. These self indulgent memoirs certainly don’t do anything to address the significant structural and social inequalities in the United States, nor do they challenge readers to think beyond their own experiences.”
wandering stars: Here’s A Thought (via katoleary) (via natface)
Honestly apropos of nothing, this sums up in practical terms what I’ve been beginning to suspect, lately: That the victory of existentialism has been essentially cored out and left as an aesthetic rather than a moral stance. And because existentialism hinges philosophically on morality, this popular moral forgetfulness has generally fouled up our lives much more than we’d like to admit or notice.
