OPINION: You are not TikTok’s Mother Theresa

We find our generation inundated by an Abrahamic flood of media and accessibility. This may seem like a moment of cultural flux, of boundless upward growth, but hubris has gotten to us.

Xavier Callan PO ’28 argues that since anyone can relentlessly make their opinion on any subject known, and every opinion is automatically deified as a piece of media by fact of existing on the internet, these stupid opinions are becoming a part of daily discourse. Callan warns us to be careful when we step onto our digital pulpits, posting honorably without falling victim to cycles of regurgitation, self-reference and remembering that we are not all career cultural critics.

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