Many “very online” men —I think they’re men: some are bots, many are genderless pseuds — are angry. Many are also sardonic, bitter, and vengeful. These vibes are their reaction to the precipitous failure of institutions in their lifetime. I like to think that if it were me facing this crisis in my relative youth, I would have exhibited all the cardinal virtues together with faith, hope, and charity. But I don’t know that, and I’m not about to give lectures characterized by the same self-righteousness I perceive in those now trained to say some variant of “Ok, Boomer.” I don’t know what Mao’s Red Guards shouted at older folks in the Cultural Revolution as they threw them out of windows, but I’m pretty sure it roughly translates into “Ok, Boomer.”
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