ADHD brain dump #1
Essay ideas I have had, but have neither the time nor bandwidth to expand upon
The thing about drastically reducing my time on social media is that I keep having Thoughts™ and nowhere but my journal and my various group chats to dump them. In my daily journaling, I do keep a running list called my ADHD Brain Dump, mostly as a way to keep myself from being distracted by running down yet another Wikipedia rabbit hole while trying to write. Most of the time, the ADHD brain dumps are just lists of things I need to research later—naval blockades, what specific things got traded on the Silk Road, houseplants that won’t die from neglect, etc.—but every once in a while, I jot down a Thought™ I would like to explore.
Anyway, so here is a list of those Thoughts.™ Most of them will be under a paywall because I honestly don’t want to be yelled at.
post-it notes from a thought daughter
Talk dirty to me: Intellectual nourishment, aesthetics as a sort of naive fascism, unexamined fantasies betraying our inherent conservatism
Sincerely weird, weirdly sincere: The need for good faith in all things
Friction: how convenience is ruining us as a society, the development of taste is like the creation of a pearl from a piece of grit
A whole ass essay about Zach Snyder because I’m kind of hyper-fixated on how little he understands the significance of his imagery