[AKN #83] The Paradox Of Being On Top Of Things
LAUGH: Hilarious Instagram Account I Can’t Stop Laughing At, LOVE: An Astonishingly Bad Game Of Wheel Of Fortune
Sup homies?
Wow. What a week…
When you write a weekly newsletter, you are constantly left with the following predicament:
Do I write about the elephant in the room this week or do I keep on keeping on as if nothing happened?
The “correct” answer to that question changes depending on who you talk to.
Some say you can’t keep talking about what you usually talk about because then you risk people saying you need to “read the room.”
No one wants to read your non-topical hot takes!
Others say you shouldn’t reflect on the events because then you run the risk of people saying you’re “making the news story about you.”
No one wants to read your topical hot takes!
So all roads lead to pissing people off.
Ergo, I am going to choose to write about what I want to write about and not worry about the nameless, faceless people I fear will hate me.
So I come to you, prepared to deliver my feelings on Russia and Ukraine, but more broadly how I feel about the state of reality right now.
I accept that I may get a semicolon wrong here or there and get reprimanded by someone I’ve never met before, but so be it.
Honestly, that person will hate me for 17 seconds and forget about me faster than every channel and news pundit forgot about COVID this week.
On to the newsletter!
LIVE: The Paradox Of Being On Top Of Things
I don’t want to write today.
Not because I don’t have things to say, but because I question how much I even know.
I know I support Ukraine. That is obvious.
But what else do I actually know?
When Ukraine was attacked, I glued myself to Twitter and tried to absorb everything I could know about the conflict in real time.
I sat there for hours breathlessly telling myself:
“Knowledge is power!” and “Educating myself is my duty!”
Story after story rolled in.
The Ghost of Kyiv! The Snake Island Guards! The Ukrainian grandmother!
“The Good Guys are winning!” I shouted from the rooftops.
The next day, I learned most of what I read was false.
There was no Ghost of Kyiv.
The Snake Island standoff wasn’t as advertised.
The Ukrainian grandmother wasn’t giving the soldiers sunflower seeds.
Yesterday, I knew everything.
Today, I realized I never knew anything.
But that didn’t stop me from doing it again the next day.
“The Russians are demoralized!” I puppet as if I could ever know that for certain.
“Those Turkish drones are something else, huh!?” I opine as if I knew about them for longer than 48 minutes.
The cycle continues.
Filling myself to the brim with information, but emerging from each session with signs of malnutrition and a hunger for more.
I desire to be on top of things.
I want to be in the know.
But why?
What has being on top of things ever gotten me except for the illusion that I was actually on top of things?
LAUGH: Hilarious Instagram Account I Can’t Stop Laughing At
I discovered this new Instagram account called @petey_usa which is a guy who makes these hilarious, weird, and stupid videos which I seriously can’t stop laughing at.
My favorite two videos are:
You will either find these videos hilarious or you will immediately turn it off.
There is no in between.
LOVE: An Astonishingly Bad Game Of Wheel Of Fortune
This was awe inspiring.
Enjoy getting yourself physically upset whilst watching this 2 minute display of incompetence.
CLOSING TIME
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Mahalo,
K.Rapp