6 January

Somebody yesterday said I wasn’t ‘positive’ enough with my FB posts. I talk about the grown up issues of the day, each to their own but I’m not here to curate some magazine-style online personality for myself, or to share snippets of my personal life which most of my newsfeed have no interest in, just as I have little interest in their personal life. To me talking about the grown up issues of the day is one of the most exciting things a grown up can do. The positivity crowd to me reek of anxiety and desperation, unwilling to engage in the major events of their lives and desperate to create a veneer of ‘happiness’ to make it all go away. Spoiled and privileged people have always responded that way to major change. The virus doesn’t give a shit, it will keep killing people until we confront the holes in our culture the virus has exposed. Climate change and inequality the same, in fact it’s all the same lazy ‘positivity’ causing these problems. (P.S. for the positivity crowd, who seem to equate life with social media, I’m currently enjoying screwing up balls of paper and watching the cat use them as soccer balls.)