#colleenballinger #mirandasings
The overwhelming desire for content is driving us in some very strange and unhealthy places. Yes, it makes sense for everyone to make a video about Jordan Peterson because we're not really engaging with Jordan Peterson; we're engaging in the machine and ideology that he supports and sustains, which is a lot bigger than evaluating a single person. But what happens if the same critiques are leveled at a low-tier media personality? What's the machine here that people want redirected or abolished? Ballinger's online career? Is victory chasing her into another line of work? I guess that's what is happening now, so congrats?

I saw the same thing with the recent #illuminaughtii stuff too. And a whole lot of smug "I never liked her and now everyone knows I'm *right* to have never liked her." This can't be good for us as a media diet, as how cultural criticism is suppose to make us better. It exhausts, and that's how I'm feeling right now from all of it.