The Age of Unhingement™️
A new era is upon us and it's not very chill.
Hi friends!
Spring is in the air here in Los Angeles. The sky really did some unsavory things this winter (it rained) and I was once again forced to endure seasons. Now the sun is back out, my neighborhood smells like jasmine, everyone’s sneezing, and life is good.
What a time to be alive. I think it’s so cool how much crazier everything keeps getting. I love to lay around and look at my little phone and watch it all unfold!
It’s been a while since I’ve caught up with a lot of you, so here’s the headline news: moved to California, accrued some memoir-worthy Hollywood tales that I can’t share here for legal reasons, discovered natural wine, wrote a few TV pilots that look cute on my hard drive, survived an airborne pathogen (for now), became more and more horrified by “society,” began fantasizing about moving to Bali, realized I’m too tired.
I can’t wait to see how millennials reinvent the midlife crisis. I love this new chapter for us.
In the meantime, let’s take a little inventory of the current culture, shall we?
Diabetes medicine that makes you skinny is the only thing trendier than fascism.
People are earnestly investing their energy in becoming LinkedIn influencers.
The AI situation is already so out of hand that the tech titan supervillains themselves have signed an open letter telling their colleagues to slow it down.
Trump’s indictment was boring.
The lunatic to life coach pipeline is shorter than ever.
Dalai Lama is a perv.
Doomsday clock is at 90 seconds — which I’m personally not too concerned about since I started doing the Lagree method, a barbaric form of pilates, and now understand how long that can be.
It just feels like while we all hang in this extremely slow and expensive apocalypse, we need something to call it. So, welcome to the Age of Unhingement™️! I was saying “post-covid” for awhile but that feels so off when everyone is still getting covid. And I think we can agree that this decade is already in need of a rebrand, so maybe we should leave covid out of it? Not saying we should pretend the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic didn’t exist or that it didn’t ravage our last few remaining brain cells at minimum. In fact, these unhinged vibes are only thriving because of the unprocessed trauma, grief, rage, isolation, and untreated mental illness the past few years unleashed.
It’s wild in these streets and we’re at a pivotal moment, collectively. Do we get our shit together and try and fix something… everything… before it’s too late? Or do we just succumb under the weight of climate change, economic chaos, and unhinged occurrence after unhinged occurrence, until we welcome our new AI overlords and enter the optimized reality they have created for us from ingesting old Pinterest boards?
Honestly, I don’t have the answers right now. I spend most of my free time drinking $8 iced lattes made from things no one milked a decade ago. But I believe in us, and I know we can all get through it together… right here… in this newsletter.
Less Lessons More Blessin’s™️
Liz