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.