Adam Serwer’s essay “The Cruelty Is the Point” changed the way I inhabit the world. I already had the pieces. I already understood them, sort of. Yet when I read his writing, something clicked for me. I see the world differently after reading it.
It’s a piece that is worth rereading now, all the way to its powerful final paragraph:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/?gift=YexU1QpjGQRNRj0UQX9KySYo41dY00dLj1hik24YwpE
(Non-paywalled link, ht mybarkingdogs (npub196n…58ny): https://archive.is/bZyGQ)
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