We have an island of tolerable weather here, so I’m going to give you all a slate of book reviews and rush off to complete other things.
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The problem, though, is that these tools will remain cheap, and will continue to be so even deep into their derangement. The people generating cognitive poison for children up above spend almost no money and almost as little time on their work. They can repeat this process hundreds of times in the space it takes a legitimate children’s book to be made. It produces garbage, but the margins are incredibly friendly. Why do six months of work that involves thought and skilled labor if you can just spend the same period of time churning out digital slop for the same payout?
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A collection of book reviews, covering what Cameron read from July through late October, covering mostly fiction alongside some journalistic and nonfiction books.
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What I have come to understand is that transience – that is, the state of being transient – is a problem. For the past decade or so, I have been transient to one degree or another. You wouldn’t know it to look at me, performing as I do a certain middle-class identity in my dress, speech, and profession, but that is what I am. This is what it means to be part of the so-called “precariat”.
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Here we are again! The summer drags, kicking and screaming, to its close; I once again have only the worst tan lines; the kiddos are going back to school.
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