@darius dang really good

"Stylistically, the inspiresting is earnest and contrived. It is smart but not quite intellectual, personal but not sincere, jokey but not funny. It is an aesthetic of populist elitism. Politically, the inspiresting performs a certain kind of progressivism, as it is concerned with making the world a better place, however vaguely."

^made me think of the phrase "i'd watch a netflix doc about that" as the more recent spin of "have you seen this ted talk about x"