Truth Versus the Comforting Fiction
Twitter is mostly terrible, but there are a few bright spots, and one of them is Nicole Cliffe. Moreso than anyone else I have found, she is able to tell consistently compelling stories in the weird and artificial format that Twitter provides. She also has this incredibly ability to build community around her writing on Twitter, which sounds strange when you say it but is 100% true. Yesterday, Cliffe dropped a particularly amazing story, the beginning of which is: OKAY: I am going to tell the story of my bigamous grandmother at the current time. Please mute me if you heard it two years ago. Please do not steal it for an Elite Daily story (happened last time.) — Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) March 25, 2018 Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. Beyond being a cracker of a tale, her story got me thinking about a question that I think is at the heart of so much what is going on in America right now. Everyone, I think, recognizes that things have chan...