[AKN #110] Professional Wrestling Was The Best
LAUGH: A Great Venn Diagram, LOVE: Reminder That The Internet Isn’t Real…Go Outside
Sup homies?
Coming to you live from the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
That’s right. I’m fed. I’m physically safe. And I am ready to self actualize the fuck out of this day.
You can say the same of basically everyone who writes online.
Like our problems look way more like “let me tell you all about how it is hot as balls in San Francisco this week” than “I don’t have a consistent way to get clean drinking water.”
But that’s OK. Everyone’s hot take is said from atop their privileged high horse. This is just reality and we shouldn't attach as much guilt to that reality as we do.
Mostly because there are better things to do. Like inequality is a problem...but what makes it worse is that people on top spend their time apologizing for their privilege instead of using it to do great things.
Instead you should tell people about how it was 97 degrees in San Francisco today.
You should lean into how that is actually brutal because SF is not a place that does heat well.
You should bitch about how we just aren’t set up for it because the entire city is made of 100 year old buildings without air conditioning or even reasonable air flow.
You should joke about how the only new construction in this city is either soulless millennial compounds or tents near the freeway.
You should tell the world about your first world problem and stop apologizing for it.
Because if they know about it, maybe it will draw attention to a problem you care about like climate change or the SF housing shortage.
Or at the bare minimum you will be acting from a place of speaking your mind instead of speaking how you think people want you to sound.
On to the newsletter!
LIVE: Professional Wrestling Was The Best
A hand crafted, artisanal post by me…except this week because wrestling is forever
This video should be required viewing for people who “never understood” wrestling.
Late 90s/ early 2000s professional wrestling was the greatest entertainment product ever devised.
LAUGH: A Great Venn Diagram
A curated joke I found wading through the cesspool of the Internet
LOVE: Reminder That The Internet Isn’t Real…Go Outside
Something I have been loving
I heard the following on how use of social media actually makes us worse at understanding others in a podcast with Tristan Harris on Rebel Wisdom (emphasis added is mine):
For example, if you ask Democrats, what percentage of Republicans would you estimate agree with the statement that racism is still a problem in the United States today?
The research showed that Democrats who use Twitter more say they would assume only 25% of Republicans would agree that racism is still a problem, while the actual answer is closer to 70%.
"What they found consistently in their research is that the more you use social media, the worse you are at estimating what other people believe. You would think it's the other way around, "if I use social media more, I'm more informed than my peers".
"It's the exact opposite. The more you use it because you're exposed to the extreme filtered view of reality, you're seeing a distorted view that makes you believe more and more incorrect things about what the other tribe is believing."
Remember none of this is real.
Go talk to a person in real life.
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Seriously Go Outside,
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