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Why Are We Talking About This, Again?

Why Are We Talking About This, Again?

On finding a vocabulary for the meta-conversation in our media

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M L Clark
Aug 02, 2023
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I wish I had a word to describe that particular blend of exasperation and dread one feels when a topic is presented as self-evidently worthy of debate.

We know this irritable sinking feeling when we feel it. A certain public figure might have landed in the news again, and prescient creatures that we are, we’ll recognize that this means we can expect our …

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