alt Hacker NewsThis really does - I don't mean it in a disparaging way - read like a mid-life crisis writing. Having to come to terms with the fact that the "old world" is not the current world anymore, which is too bad, because you like the old one, and you don't quite fit in the new one either.
This feeling has existed across generations and most of us have to go through it eventually.
The world, however, is not any less real than it has always been and is not collapsing.
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Havoc • today at 3:31 PM
> mid-life crisis writing
Might also be that but his takes have also been…unique
That’s also why I think the blog is liked. Sometimes the takes a bad. Sometimes they are novel and good
4ndrewl • today at 2:44 PM
It's more aligned with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality, than that I think.
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>> it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. The real world is strip malls and axe throwing and escape rooms.
The author really needs a change of scenery. 'Strip malls and axe throwing' sounds like a minor update to the 'strip malls and TGIFs' of the `90's.