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Dillon Picks December 2021
Tis the season for me to select my favourite reads on Medium over the past month.
On Medium, the onset of Christmas brings with it the inevitable deluge of both manic festive cheer and misery porn. Both extremes are immensely irritating, to my mind. On the one hand, we are bludgeoned with energiser bunny types in retina-scorching coloured Christmas jumpers, with fairy lights in their beards, telling us if we don’t join in with singing Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas (an annual horror about as welcome as seasonal flu), then we are Ebenezer Scrooge. This in turn triggers the latter category, who fire a defensive volley of tedious dreck about how we’re all hamsters treading an oppressive capitalist wheel, how the commercialisation of Christmas is the end of civilisation as we know it, and an otherwise interminable chorus of bah, humbug.
Neither type of article will be represented in this month’s Dillon Picks. On the other hand, if you’re looking for compelling reads that entertain, inform, make you laugh, cry, think, or any combination thereof, I am pleased to point you in the direction of this pile of gems. And yes — I have included some Christmas themed articles, but I promise they are worthwhile. As ever, ruthless Imperial scrutiny has been applied in the Dillon Empire selection process, so please feel free to…