Navigating the quagmire of cancel culture and consumerism

Do not participate in promoting complacency.

At times it feels pretentious to criticize "mass market media" and "mass market literature." But other times, like after learning about this... "Elizabeth Gilbert halts release of a new book after outcry over its Russian setting."

I don’t know… it just itches my brain in the worst way.

I had forgotten she was the author who wrote “Eat, Pray, Love,” to be honest I’ve never read it and I probably never will. However, the important context for my thoughts on this is the understanding that she is a “mass market author.”

So, I read about this from a piece in Noema: "The Emptiness of Literature Written for The Market." (The piece shares many of my own thoughts around this topic in a much less hyperbolic fashion, so if you prefer that format, give it a read as well. I don’t write on here to fall under some illusionary zeitgeist about the proper structure of presenting an argument.)

Also, this partially feels like a follow-up to this essay I wrote last week:

Okay…

Kenneth Dillon in Noema:

"Thi…