Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Everyone Is Crazy Now
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/everyone-is-crazy-now
- Read date:: 2025-07-26
Highlights
The competition is now global. To get attention as a teenager in 2000, you had to be a class clown: Make jokes, do hijinx, be edgier than the few hundred other kids in your school. Now, you have to compete with the entire world. Whatever stunt you pull, everyone already saw something far more deranged on their phones this morning. (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2025-07-27
As Kyla Scanton recently said, “Traditional economic substrates are land, labor, capital—bedrock inputs to make stuff. But now, the foundational input is attention.” (View Highlight)
Rich people are not immune to the euphoric thrill of likes (View Highlight)
Everyone is forged in the same fever, by the same game that rewards the same behavior: Be unhinged. (View Highlight)
how long do you have to say, “wild times, huh?,” before it’s no longer the times, and it just is? (View Highlight)