I'm sorry but 262 words is not a manifesto. A manifesto should be so long and rambling that its sheer size deters people from reading it. It should look like you need a briefcase full of ragged, yellowed typing paper to lug it around in and wave at people. It should be usable as a melee weapon in an emergency. 262 words isn't even the abstract to a respectable manifesto. ...
In 100 years this is going to be in a display at some museum to try to help whoever's around the future to understand the early 21st Century. ...
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We can take some joy from knowing that when Elon Musk sees that video his mind will immediately go to all of the Russian mobsters and Saudi bone saw guys he is in hock to.
A glimpse into his future. Yeah, billion dollars or not they *can* get to you and when you’re no longer useful, they will. Sleep tight! ...
Everyone remotely near a position of power in the U.S. right now is drunk on It Can't Happen Here-ism while most of the rest of the world has recent enough experience with "It" Happening that they react differently. If they don't react to authoritarian power-grabs *successfully* they at least react to them decisively. They understand democracy as a thing that is fragile, that can disappear, and that requires a defense beyond telling citizens to vote. ...
Desargues says:
I look forward to ADM's next hit, "Bennett!", to be followed, in quick succession, by "Come with me if you wanna live," "My mission is to protect you," and "Fuck you, asshole!"
But how many Austrian death machines are there? Arnie's at least the second, if we start with Adolf from Linz.
Nate says:
Ed, I love you dearly, but I'm supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of over privileged young assholes because they don't know who they are?
That article encapsulates why I quit reading Gawker. I felt a similar urge to stick my fist through the monitor, and I doubt my employer would like that.
Pan Sapiens says:
I'm not quite sure when I became "Red" Forman from "That 70s Show", but obviously I..I've become him. Especially after reading that Gawker piece. My immediate reaction was "Dumbasses!". I don't want to see any of those youngsters on my lawn.
Desargues says:
I'm not sure which is most galling — really, a slap in the face of any decent person who reads — the Times chronicling the post-crash tribulations of gazillionaires reduced to owning a mere two yachts and a mid-size country; or these fuckwits cataloging the trivial adversities of young white shits lost on motherfuckin' Facebook. Fuck them both, I say; I couldn't give a shit about these asswipes if my life depended on it.
Ike says:
Huzzah! My life sucks; I'm single and broke. You know what I'm doing about it? Working 60 hours a week and starting two businesses on the side. Blood and sweat take care of most ills. The ocean handles the rest.
moonbat says:
I'm well past a QuarterLife crisis, but I know what it's like to be lost for a very long time. Thanks for the article.
beau says:
1. "We care not for talk of 20-something angst! Make with the talk of crocheting and getting up in the middle of the night to pee!". Ed – you have been told. Please blog only on subjects that reflect your aging readers' views – you know, like TownHall.com
2. Yeah, these guys know their Haiti. But one of them big hospital boats is probably a good start.
3. Like a layer cake of awesome – the song, the clip, the arnie.
Ed says:
I agree, Beau. Reading these comments made me wonder if I had stumbled upon the Daily Caller by accident.
Pan Sapiens says:
… then Ed, I curse you with the one curse that works: Someday, you too will be old and your prostate shall be the size of an orange, and you will be annoyed with little nattering fuck-twats whose brains have not yet grown into the fronts of their skulls.
choada777 says:
Holy shit! That described me down to the tee.
From the desire to visit Singapore and attend grad school to hating my unfulfilling, pointless, underpaying job and banal conversation.
I guess I really am an asshole.
scribe says:
I clicked this expecting Neustadt.
MarilynJean says:
I'm a twentysomething and I think that quarter life shit is a joke. Desargues@7:57 said it best. I mean really: what the fuck is the problem? Crisis seems so damn dramatic. Meanwhile in Haiti…