Quotes by Tony Tulathimutte

You think every functioning couple knows themselves and expresses what they want and hears what the other is saying perfectly? That were not pumping everyone else full of prejudices and fantasies with no connection to reality? The only thing holding relationships together is intention. Its not a matter of fact or reason. We get to say what happened because were the only ones who care.

The ironic, too-cool meta satire, the sneering and mocking? Is actually just a contemporary version of the bourgeois sentimentality its trying to mock. It is not new. Really its almost quaint. The backlash has already outlasted it.

He wrote arguments for and against life; he began to think the slowest and most painful form of suicide was living, running the whole decathlon of suffering, no breather or bottled water. Fear of dying was irrational. Death was utilitarian. Decrease in net resource consumption and planetary suffering. Increase in net comedy. There was no afterlife but there was a right-before-death, and medical research said it was loopy and nice, all white lights and gentle voices. With booze it wasnt even scary. Some people with terrible lives didnt kill themselves, but that didnt mean they shouldnt. Most people werent alive and didnt mind. You couldnt regret it.

Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation.

The worst thing about pills was that they worked. Without them, you might just adapt; medical optimism suspended you in a maintenance reality. Hed never known how sick he was until hed gotten health insurance. The pill that really wanted inventing was the bitter one that cured you of optimism and made time go faster.

Reality took forever — the underwater way people walked and sent their voices wobbling through the air, how printed words lay inert like bugsplat, all manifesting the basic DUH of the physical plane. By the time he decided to go anywhere he wondered why he wasnt there already. As soon as he sent an email he felt he should already have the reply. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swallowed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places online, until all thinking felt redundant. We needed brain-to-brain; only then would we catch up to real time. Right now everything progressed so slowly that by the time we arrived at the future it was the present again.