Humanity in the gutter
5 min readJan 24, 2022
Millennial readers are too familiar with conflict literature. Maybe not of past or contemporary wars but also ones of the personal kind for sure. The biggest democratising effect of the internet has been to spotlight personal narratives of trauma of ordinary people and fuel revolutions the moment the accrued personal stories reach a critical mass(#MeToo, BLM et al.). A market for victimhood stories was thus proven and an onslaught of victimhood stories emerged of unverified veracity. Upon review, it would seem like all human art and expression has been attempts at representing conflicts and their aftermath. But…
