We have had a reactionary cultural response to the age of irony, and well-meaning deference, sincerity, empathy, and credulity have conspired to replace objective shared reality with a collective ethic of solipsism--and then held that solipsism up as a virtue of progress!
If there's one thing this world needs, in times like these, it's another blog by a white fella talking about the news and culture he loves to hate.