There's something to be done with Romantic irony & fragmentary philosophy VS the tendency of many people to have an unwritten magnum opus in their imaginations.

Like... NaNoWriMo is some overachiever shit. I want to see a 12 hour period where people just drink a whole pot of coffee and write their halfass version of "Speculative notes toward X." The world would be much richer for it.

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"Refuse to elaborate" is the zeitgeist of the 2020s. It's an implicit recognition that all of the technologies of personal expression (social media) have done little to bring people closer to their selves or their communities, but have instead brought greater fragmentation to communities and within the self.

There are few things more tyrannical than the expectation of explanation: Explain why you think that; why you do that; why you are that. And it never ends ... until it fragments!

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