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#yes it’s about the truman show. yes it’s about gaslight media which flourished from 2003-2005 had a failed revival in 2014-2015 and is has
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my boss: write an 800-1000 word piece on the truman show’s 25th anniversary
me: *currently 5000 words into dissecting the history of a subgenre i coined mid-article*
#yes it’s about the truman show. yes it’s about gaslight media which flourished from 2003-2005 had a failed revival in 2014-2015 and is has
#been coming back with a vengeance the past few years due to our widespread fascination with gaslighting as a concept and newfound cultural
#familiarity with it in day to day life allowing us to take comfort even from shows using machinations of manipulation as their entire format
#in a way we couldn’t in the early 2000s when said format was almost solely used for the humiliation of unsuspecting citizens
#now though we’ve come to see it as a bad but almost ubiquitous aspect of life so we find more comfort in witnessing it occur in a ‘positive’
#way than not witnessing it occur at all because we automatically assume it is anyways and we’re the targets
#sorry if this didn’t make sense. it does if you’re me
#aka if you spent the entire day frantically researching every reality tv hoax to ever air with rabid fascination
#and also the truman show. also that
#i don’t understand how people in theory heavy fields are able to suddenly shift to write pithy simple cultural commentary on slate
#how do you pivot like that. how do you not say all the things you want to say
#like…. maybe i am not cut out for this. maybe i’m only cut out for academia. except also FUCK that i don’t want to be a professor
#in other words: i am fucked
#why can’t i just write giant analyses of everything and get money for them. wdym that’s not how the world works
#lol not like i’m getting money for this either. getting paid in experience baby
#(read: i am incredibly broke and in desperate search for a second job. fuuuuuck unpaid labor i love capitalism love it)
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