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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3485 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen  ·  

I think the reason you never understood Vice is that you were too mature for it, and just not the target demographic at all.

Being young, pissing on everything is a way to make yourself feel above it all. At that stage, one might not realize that boundless negativity is not only something something that doesn't help the world, but also something that makes you feel bad about yourself. Cynicism is a shortcut to feeling like an intellectual. At least it was for me.