Writing Problems: Facebook

Lermontov, Coleman, Goethe, Różewicz, Gregg, Celan

I look on my generation with grief: its future is blank and grim; it will grow old in inaction, it will sink under the weight of doubt and barren science. —Mikhail Lermontov

I am writing this on Tuesday, October 5, the day following the five hour Facebook outage. As a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, explained to the Senate, Facebook is toxic, harmful, des…