![]() It’s become incredibly difficult for anyone, public figure or not, to speak their truth without pre-calculating how much shit they’re willing to take for it, and calibrating their message accordingly. From filtered selfies to blogged polemics designed to dominate the outrage cycle of any given day, there’s maybe never been more manufacturing of confessional impulse. ![]() There’s a misconception that we’re living in a time of over-sharing in fact, it’s more accurately a time of managed sharing, of shaping our shares to either avoid conflict or instigate it. ![]() This is a pretty succinct summing-up of our cultural moment, in which provocative self-display often fronts for fear of true self-revelation, and in which art and commentary both are rarely allowed to exist in the ether for long before they become grist for attacks and counterattacks, which, inevitably, distort the original beyond all recognition. ![]()
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