JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:

People say Reddit is a cesspool, and that’s not quite accurate. There are many useful, factual, smart, reasoned subreddits. A lot depends on the moderators. You can tell a moderator has the cliched Reddit mindset when you see a rule like “4. Transwomen are women” and it’s a subreddit devoted to fountain pens.

I was reading about the Paris riots in a subreddit devoted to Lost Architecture. As with 2020, you are sternly discouraged from mourning property destruction, which only shows you are missing the real issue.

Don’t get me wrong, bro, I’m totally on board with burning museums, if they’re the ones that need burning.

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