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Baffler Archives: Outbursts

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Habitual User
September 03, 2018
What is it about social media that’s so depressing? I’m asking for myself. And I mean beyond the obvious: that much of the imagery and information presented there accelerates suffering and despair; that many people who use it are themselves plainly, often explicitly ...

Body Work
Sometime in my fifties I lost faith in conventional medicine, which, I had come to see, is more a collection of rituals than anything evidence-based. Alternative medicine did not attract me, since it is even goofier than the regular kind; I wanted an alternative to medicine. I ...

Mourning Joe
It takes about half an hour to drive from the airport to downtown Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. You’ll likely land in the middle of the night—the few regional flights that service the city mysteriously favor 11 p.m. departures—and on the ...

The World is a Business
Network, a merciless and prescient satire of television released in 1976, is best remembered for its unhinged news broadcaster, Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch), who exhorts his audience to go to their windows and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take ...