Beware, for a Brain-Dumping Grab Bag Shall Ensue

Making an attempt to not consult my backburner list of potential ramblings for this space until I exhaust options - if there are any - for rambling improvisation from at the anointed hour of their self-required creation.

Thoughts jangled loose from the last 24 hours of brain wanderings:

Considering: taking my Twitter account private for no other reason than I haven't done it in the 11-plus years I've rented out my useless parentheticals to the public timeline. Preventing me from doing so: a bevy of reasons, all of whose seemingly sound logic is decimated in the face of two simple questions: What's the point? and Do you really care about that? ...

Ideal: a private / public toggle for Twitter posts. Would love to have the links to these postings be public, with all of the other useless shit I post being private, accessible only to those who choose to subscribe / invite me into their timeline – a better self-policing of signal to noise – or something like that. I don’t know.

Also:

Almost done with Kurt Andersen's FANTASYLAND and, though the subtitle rings false – we've been haywire since our founding; it's in our nature, the constant struggle between reason and irrationality – and a general aversion to survey-course scope, I'm finding it illuminating. One major thing, however, is preventing me from including it on my unwritten though gestating List of Books to Understand the Madness (potentially joining Tim Alberta's AMERICAN CARNAGE, PW Singer and Emmerson T. Brooking's LIKEWAR, Naomi Klein's THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, John Carreyrou's BAD BLOOD, and Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY): the lack of a bibliography / notes section (yes, there are copious footnotes but they are - at best - incomplete). Call me rational, but I want to actually read the primary sources from which Andersen derives his incisive commentary... a qualified inclusion on the list, perhaps.