OK, in the relative privacy of Mastodon, here's the #SeriousThought that's been bugging me all morning.

The Barbenheimer foo fah on social media reminds me that the critiques you find in works like these, and then the critiques of the critiques of the works, and then the backlash to the critiques of the critique, can become its own source of exhaustion and enervation.

Immersion in this noise for too long gives you some kind of moral tinnitus.