rant · moment 2 of 22
Thomas Friedman, Church, and the Uselessness of Everything
from #193 - Fun Easter Foods | The Tim Dillon Show · #193
3 min
He recalls reading Thomas Friedman as a naive teen, then spirals into a nihilistic riff that nothing makes sense, everyone should do whatever keeps them sane (church, communes, Portland), and that statistics and people are equally insane, before mocking how terrible March weather always is.
- Tim read Thomas Friedman at seventeen and thought his vague platitudes about global connectivity meant something.
- Growing up he realized nobody understands anything about the world and life is just a waste of time.
- Articles, tweet threads, all of it are just something to do — nothing makes sense anymore.
- If you need the church or an anarchist vegan compound in Portland to stay sane, Tim won't judge you.
- People are genuinely insane — rubber room dangerous — and you share a country where they get to vote.
- The wealthy took the last flight out with all the money and left regular people standing on the tarmac with nothing.
- March is the worst month of the year — a rainy, allergy-filled hellscape of false hope and sickness.