Alex Rhys

bingo, worst of the pre elon twitter condition. the pandemic really did folks in, i hate denialists but the doomers feel just as bad imo

I haven't really been on there but this is reaffirming I made the right choice, I spent enough time on Twitter watching people wank about how every improvement in society that could conceivably actually happen isn't good enough

god. yeah. a lot of the same feelings as i get on mastodon sometimes - although those types of people have calmed down at least in my corner of masto.

googling those phrases led me to her essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction". I can't find those exact phrases in the text, but from reading the first few pages, I get the feeling that this essay covers those topics.

Oh hey here we go:

"It sometimes seems that that story is approaching its
end. Lest there be no more telling of stories at all, some
of us out here in the wild oats, amid the alien corn, think
we'd better start telling another one, which maybe people
can go on with when the old one's finished. Maybe. The
trouble is, we've all let ourselves become part of the killer story, and so we may get finished along with it. Hence it
is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story."