[dkarl]

I don't think that's the way you're supposed to read it? I think you're supposed to read it as, the trendy extremes tell you something about a place, even if the details are silly and ephemeral. People with no filter, no shame, no interest in correctness or consequences, and no pole star except trends are like a cartoon guide to the trends and the mentality driving them.

I think the author would agree with most of what you wrote.

[cyanydeez]

the last decade of journalism has taken two comments on twitter to claim social zeitgeist.

[CatMustard]

Maybe in a world as culturally-fractured as ours two comments on twitter is as close to a zeitgest as you can get.

Maybe. Personally I'd say it'd take at least 5.

[cyanydeez]

Just not true; while the journalists are doing this tweet thing, they're consistently ignore things like the epstein files.