Everybody is on a leash. Some are more obvious than others. - Emma Newman

I’m not sure what the masses enjoy more: being swept into a fervor about the latest big story or the backlash against it. It all ends the same way: by the time whatever is being hyped actually happens, most people have used up all the fucks they could possibly give about it.

It’s no easier to climb down than it is to go up. It just torments a different set of muscles.

Nobody does emotional distancing from reprehensible behavior better than the British, after all.