You don’t usually come across long-form articles that resonate with millions of people these days, mainly because nobody knows how to read anymore. For as long as everyone’s owned a cell phone, pretty much every form of media has been locked in an arms race to make content shorter, more attention-grabbing, and more conspiratorial. So it takes a lot for a 10,000-word essay in a tiny, little-known publication to break containment.
But that’s exactly what happened with a new article in Compact magazine, titled “The Lost Generation.” It was written by Jacob Savage — a white man who aspired to be a big player in the entertainment industry, before he had to settle for a much less glamorous career scalping tickets from his bedroom.
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