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TikTok Dialectics & the Labor Movement

ianjolie

As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate — and as more and more states within the U.S. are putting more and more restrictions on social media companies’ use of, um, us, haha — TikTok has found itself at the epicenter of our meta-cultural discussion. Quite frankly, though, I find most of this discourse to be boring and repetitive. Does the TikTok discourse feel boring and repetitive to you, too? At least a little? Genuine question. To me, it feels like the same conversation, stuck at the most basic of levels, over and over again, to forever, just framed a … Continue reading TikTok Dialectics & the Labor Movement

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The Postmodern Apology

ianjolie

There’s this thing that I call a “postmodern apology” that’s pervading our conversational language. I first noticed it as something we tell ourselves; increasingly (or maybe I’m just going crazy — it’s not like I have quantitative proof this is happening in our culture), the “postmodern apology” is something we’re using with others. Here’s an example of me doing it to myself yesterday. I thought to myself, “I can’t believe I ate so much. I do this all the time. Uggghhh, this is unhealthy…” Now, notice: it’s not that I ate a lot, I felt bad, and so I thought those … Continue reading The Postmodern Apology