27 April

Also gig culture. The reason the gig economy is so popular, zero commitment to any wider purpose. Everything is about ‘the feels’, about how we individually feel. Total absence of any sort of collective purpose, of everyone putting their shoulders to the wheel to create something magnificent for us all. Everyone with ‘mental health’ issues, zero resilience. And this isn’t confined to the young, if anything the old are now the worst offenders, living permanent ‘lifestyle’ lives. That’s what gig culture means, the collapse of adult life and its replacement with permanent adolescence, with melodrama and emoting and performative outrage.