{"id":2956,"date":"2011-08-17T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2011-08-17T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:59:09","slug":"why-there-are-no-girls-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/why-there-are-no-girls-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 “Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the best writing <\/a>I’ve ever seen on a blog. I subscribed a while ago but the team posts are always inconsistent. However I always read new posts because they’re so funny. Here’s an\u00a0excerpt:<\/p>\n

The disillusion is this: the reason adults don’t know much about anything is that they don’t care. It doesn’t matter to them. All those years they fed you a diet of math homework and mnemonic techniques as if learning about the world was the quintessential part of the human condition, but as far as they’re concerned, the pursuit of knowledge is a nerd’s sideshow, a\u00a0sidecar<\/a>, the artsy little seat adjoining the motorcycle of important things: island homes, famous friends, and trophy wives. Adults know by a wealth of experience that people like Socrates, Kepler, Ghandi, Hamlet, Abe Lincoln – those geniuses end up dead. Poisoned, persecuted, starved, stabbed, shot in the head. Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump and the Situation, by contrast, end up on top of sexy waitresses.<\/p>\n

The secret to life, it turns out, isn’t knowing about sh*t. It’s convincing others to validate you. Class dismissed, tiny mo fos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such fantastic writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the best writing I’ve ever seen on a blog. 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