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About Sam White
Sam White is a writer, photographer, and journalist. He has written on politics, culture, music, sport, travel, and other subjects, and he also writes fiction and poetry.
Originally from the North of England, he is now resident in Tokyo.
His articles have appeared on sites including The Spectator, Vice, Spiked Online, The Huffington Post, Quillette, Metropolis Magazine, and GaijinPot.
Originally from the North of England, he is now resident in Tokyo.
His articles have appeared on sites including The Spectator, Vice, Spiked Online, The Huffington Post, Quillette, Metropolis Magazine, and GaijinPot.
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Books By Sam White
I Wish I Hadn't Written This: An Archive of Being Too Online in the Culture Wars, 2016 - 2019
Mar 17, 2020
by
Sam White
$2.99
I love deleting things.
Flushing all my tweets. I enjoy when the online aftermath gets click-wiped away, like digital crumbs. Who said what? Who was in the right, and who was talking nonsense?
...who cares?
That's what it all comes down to in the end: so what?
Delete.
This is particularly true when it comes to politics, Brexit, and the so-called culture wars, because the thing is, does anyone really have the first clue who was right and who was wrong?
Was I right? Maybe sometimes, maybe not ever, maybe it doesn't matter.
But... for around three and a half years, I was an active participant in those culture wars. So while deletion is satisfying, this book is a compilation and archive of my writing during that period.
Topics covered are those that were laying waste to everyone's sanity at the time:
Brexit
Trump
Terrorism
Free speech
Censorship
Social media
Identity politics
Political correctness
The rise of wokeness
Pious celebrities
Media bias
...and all the rest of it.
It was chaos. So here is a collection to preserve one small section of the storm. The view from a tiny online corner, of the digital derangement one couldn't help, for a time, but be washed along with.
Flushing all my tweets. I enjoy when the online aftermath gets click-wiped away, like digital crumbs. Who said what? Who was in the right, and who was talking nonsense?
...who cares?
That's what it all comes down to in the end: so what?
Delete.
This is particularly true when it comes to politics, Brexit, and the so-called culture wars, because the thing is, does anyone really have the first clue who was right and who was wrong?
Was I right? Maybe sometimes, maybe not ever, maybe it doesn't matter.
But... for around three and a half years, I was an active participant in those culture wars. So while deletion is satisfying, this book is a compilation and archive of my writing during that period.
Topics covered are those that were laying waste to everyone's sanity at the time:
Brexit
Trump
Terrorism
Free speech
Censorship
Social media
Identity politics
Political correctness
The rise of wokeness
Pious celebrities
Media bias
...and all the rest of it.
It was chaos. So here is a collection to preserve one small section of the storm. The view from a tiny online corner, of the digital derangement one couldn't help, for a time, but be washed along with.
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