Recalling that the internet began with promises to democratize culture and spread enlightenment, and seeing today that it's fallen into the same demoralized (teenage) wasteland of poetry and song, maybe it's time for a rethink to reset the balance and reframe the whole. But how and where?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Post election do you wonder whether estimation of 1860 as an analogous time was premature, or instead looks closer to the panic of the picnickers galloping in retreat from of the first Battle of Bull Run?