How Rick Owens Is Making Me Look at the World

What Can Fashion These Days Even Say About…Our World on Fire? More Than You Think.

“You can’t write about that!” So exclaimed my poor kid sis, aka the editor-in-chief. “People will…kill you!!”

Sigh. Look. I’ve sort of hinted at the fact over the years that I’m sick of talking about economics and politics. Lately, I’ve shared with you in sort of brutal detail just why. It gets… nowhere. Personally, I end up being controversialized for saying the very same thing that pundits and whatnot then say a few years later, like today, fascism, authoritarianism, or climate change is…wait for it…real. It’s tedious and tiresome, being in the public eye in that way.

We all know what happens next. The world keeps on spinning out of control, and we sort of repeat the 1930s, with a few extra twists. Yawn, shrug, hey, look, you care, I care, but everyone else? They don’t. And we’re not going to change them, from the Democrats to the masses turning to demagogues to the lunacy of it all.

If you want the heavy stuff, you can head on over to The Issue, where sure, I still discuss it. Yesterday, there, we talked about the Omega Point, or the point of inevitable collapse. I’d be delighted to see you there, if that’s your thing, and we’re having plenty of…