Friday, 25 April 2025

Selective Outrage: Cocaine For The Pretentious

Every once in a while, the world finds newer phrases to fall in love with

And then like toxic lovers abuse the shit out of it until it finds fresher distractions to move on to

The world today teaches the world to identify genders and sexualities as fluid concepts

While selling the very idea of nuances to binaries, the very idea of respectfully disagreeing to a raging hate economy: if you can't love it, you have to hate it

Imagine a world that psychotic finds a phrase it can fall in love 

Apparently that word these days is “selective outrage”

What an outrageous idiocy

Like outrage was ever supposed to be democratic

It is rhetorical because outrage is always selective.

If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be outrage —

It’d be cynicism, or nihilism, or realism,

Wearing the rotting skin of a misanthrope


When you outrage, you pretend to be better than the rest

While perpetrating selective outrage yourself, like shame wasn't even a thing


You curate your morality like writers twist their words

But the misanthrope me, I know better

I know we’re all just compost in waiting —

organic waste with delusions of purpose,

rotting toward irrelevance


You see what I did there

Got you in the intricate details so you miss the point

The point that my undying need to be better than you is at war with your unquenched thirst to be better than the rest

Thereby proving, we are all fucking garbage


And it just proves my point all over again; it was my jigsaw you thought was yours

But then I'm a writer, I twist words by second nature

You on the other hand, my dear narcissistic acquaintance, walked into the bait, eyes wide open

The pride to salvage your sinking ego too blinding for you to notice the devil in the details

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