purejuice

Punditry is porn. People engage passively and in shallow ecstasy, like lab rats pressing a button for stims, through the desire to feel the flood of righteousness. Gushes of words in clever or bombastic configurations that disengage critical thought. Once I discovered that nugget of truth, I quit reposting-without-comment and thus hit a place where I write mainly in solitude, figuring out all over again what I think and why, and how and when it changes with the intake of new information. But so hard to find the data amid the opinions.