
I Miss When Only Smart People Got to Talk
There’s something deeply exhausting about being online in 2025. Not just because of the constant influx of headlines, tragedies, and half-baked thread explainers — but because we’ve now spent over a decade in the digital wilderness, listening to people we would never take seriously in real life. We’re drowning in thoughts that were never meant to be spoken aloud, let alone published, reposted, and algorithmically amplified. And it’s making all of us just a little bit dumber.

Tony Soprano Walked So the Therapy Generation Could Run: A Retrospective
Britney Spears’ “Toxic” is playing on the radio. Logomania it-bags and frosted eyeshadow are in, Lindsay Lohan is on every tabloid cover. Your Motorola Razr flips open with a satisfying snap. It’s the early 2000s, and therapy is still for ‘crazy people.’