Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Wang? [008]

wordcount: 23.8k In fall 2025, my youtube recommendations put a video into my feed titled "The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing" by Hilary Layne. Despite/because of the eyebrow-raising title 1 , I watched it... and found myself deeply disagreeing with Layne's cherry-picked examples and poorly reasoned arguments. A brief summary of (most of) the video's major ideas: American/English…