Are we back? We might be back.
We wish more people would blog. It's true that blogging is very 15 years ago, whereas the mini-blogging convenience of Twitter and long-posting on Facebook to everyone you've ever met in your life are the hottest shit-sessions of the moment. It's beyond "everyone has a voice." These voices -- which are now literally everyone's voice -- demand loud, long takes on literally every topic, until the overwhelming density of output accumulates to such a degree that it no longer constitutes as meaningful content. Unfiltered news feeds have grown to colossal static noise, gigantic enough that one unverified un-checked voice no longer matters. Why add to the noise? No matter how much thought goes into one little 140 character post, it's a fallen tree lost in the midst of an infinitely vast forest that only a limited few might hear or see or remember.
Quarantine logically should get more eyes on a wider public discourse, but it's also increased the output of noise to an unprecedented degree. The blue checkmarks clearly are incapable of any little people stealing their thunder, which is why we now get influencer dummies flashing their tits on Twitter. A couple weeks back, it felt like influencers and the 1% finally didn't matter. And then "Imagine" happened. What a bunch of fucking losers. We tried our best to ignore Natalie Portman jumping the shark as much as possible, but she sucks. Fuck Hollywood. Rich people should be ashamed of themselves. It's time to promote "rich shaming." Fuck them all. If 9/11 couldn't kill decadence, the current global disaster might get the job done nicely, refocusing the world as a whole on things that actually matter for a change. A lot of us will emerge from the rubble in a far more financially vulnerable position, more enraged by Cribs-style flaunts of luxury than ever before. We were already enraged by the celebration of materialism throughout the mid-2000s, and it turns out we were right all along. How about that?
There was a plan to end this blog sometime around 2020 or 2021. In the meantime, we might return to daily posts for the remainder of the quarantine. We have a lot to discuss, and none of it is meaningful, but it's all longer than what we care to express on the socials to everyone we've ever met.
We also planned on continuing MTVZ until around now, early 2020. We figured there's only so much noteworthy Youtube content. But we keep finding stuff! At this rate, we'll probably have another one of these ready by late April.
And try to contain yourself while sneaking a peek at the May 2020 edition:
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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