Secret Shorts and Discarded Plots

Some thoughts on cultural overproduction

Recently my inbox has been flooded by posts from Matt Taibbi, one of Substack’s most prolific posters, sometimes three or four a day. It seems that the curious trend of short form posting has now also hit (or infected) Substack. But I get it and I understand the urgency with which social media posters fill the airwaves. For many, posts follow a simple e…