Dec 18, 2022·edited Dec 18, 2022Liked by Franklin Einspruch
I can certainly relate to Amanda Fortini's piece, though I would say that seemingly everyone and everything is pushing an agenda, typically the same fashionably "correct" one, and the more it's pushed, the greater the impulse to recoil from being played. The often obvious attempt at manipulation is repellent, not least because it's an insult to one's capacity to judge and decide independently, as well as one's right to do so. People are free to follow fashion, but just because they are slaves to it does not entitle them to enslave others not so inclined--and there's the rub.
I can certainly relate to Amanda Fortini's piece, though I would say that seemingly everyone and everything is pushing an agenda, typically the same fashionably "correct" one, and the more it's pushed, the greater the impulse to recoil from being played. The often obvious attempt at manipulation is repellent, not least because it's an insult to one's capacity to judge and decide independently, as well as one's right to do so. People are free to follow fashion, but just because they are slaves to it does not entitle them to enslave others not so inclined--and there's the rub.