W.A. Hayes
1 min readMay 22, 2023

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I think people who have an addiction for bitter-sweet things (more bitter than sweet of course) will be addicted by many of the articles you have written, and this one is the greatest example of that. This bitter-sweetness comes from the irony that is the present intolerant pro-tolerance movement that has become its own unique form of something that can be called a societal disease. I think a good deal of it has to do with the modern social media tech that our culture is obsessed with; now, more people have a platform, and though that would imply the greater addition of the things that are good and just and yes, tolerant, there is just as much of the opposite, if not more. Because more people have a platform open to them, there are more people to easily succumb to the egoistic and reckless frenzy of standing for something that they really don't know a lot about or who believe they are standing for something in the correct way when it is in fact very erroneous. It's this that forms the great contradiction (and disease) that is the modern intolerant pro-tolerance movement. It's the sort of thing that makes for good satire (if one dares to go that route), but to approach it in a sort of non-cynical fashion would require great daring and patience, because how can you deal with people who are so blind to such a gigantic contradiction that is embodied within them?

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W.A. Hayes
W.A. Hayes

Written by W.A. Hayes

Gentleman, Scholar, and Punk Poet. I'm a male, so I will let you figure out my pronouns.

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