I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) by Kat Timpf

Author:Kat Timpf [Timpf, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Commentary & Opinion, Humor, Topic, Celebrity & Popular Culture, Political Ideologies, Conservatism & Liberalism
ISBN: 9781668067291
Google: 6dvyEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-09-09T23:00:00+00:00

7 Taxation Is Armed Robbery

I agreed to be a guest on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast at the last minute, filling the spot of someone else who had dropped out, during what was already one of the busiest weeks of my life—so busy it would have been impossible to manage if I weren’t one of those people who are kind of addicted to chaos. I’m sure it’s not healthy, but I guess I’ve just always seen it as a tantalizing alternative to that paralyzing emptiness I can feel whenever things calm down enough for my brain to deem them “boring.”

My first book had come out the previous week, and I’d been doing nonstop press and promotion. I loved talking about the contents of my book, apart from the constant fear that I was doing it wrong. I really, really, really wanted people to read it; the subject was so important, and I’d been careful to nail the execution—sometimes even spending an hour or more editing a single sentence or two, inspired by the way one of my favorite authors, John Updike, was able to write such perfect little passages in his Rabbit novels that many of them have stuck with me my entire life. (Yeah, that bit about hate as a shelter isn’t the only one that’s stuck with me; there are so many: “We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.” “How can you respect the world when you see it’s being run by a bunch of kids turned old?” “It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.” “Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money.” “We are cruel enough without meaning to be.” “You can’t trust anybody not to fuck.” And then there’s the one that made me sob over and over again after my mom died: “What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.” Ouch.)

Anyway, I really believed You Can’t Joke About That was the best thing I’d ever done—like, so much so that I worried I might not even be able to put “the best thing I’ve ever done” in an Instagram caption celebrating my future hypothetical child’s hypothetical first birthday—and one of very few things I’d ever felt this kind of confidence about. I’m far more inclined to doubt my own work than to like it, let alone think that other people would like it, too.

I was proud because I knew the book could resonate with anyone. It was a human book about human stuff, not a political book about political stuff, but I was also worried that people might think the opposite when they saw that it was a Fox News author’s book. You know? Some people might assume that it was about The

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