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Everything Is Your Fault and You’re Going To Die!

I mean that in a good way

The Diarist
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8 min readApr 25, 2024

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25 April 2024, reflection “life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.” Is that so?

Hey, how are you? What did you do today? Please don’t tell me. That was a rhetorical question. I don’t care what the answer is. I’m trying to fake engagement online like everybody else does. Judging by the constant self-help and productivity garbage on my social media feeds.

When did the Internet get taken over by hustle culture tech bro types? I ask for a friend.

I’m a one-man wolf pack!

Twitter threads are profound!

I write everything as separate lines!

I like bumper stickers!

That’s how they sound to me. I don’t understand why anyone listens to these idiots. They’ve got nothing to say but they say it loud and proud like they got religion. The Internet is awash with this sort of crap and people lap it up.

As a writer who likes to think, and as an old fart who feels like they might know a few things, it makes my blood boil.

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James Garside
The Diarist

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