Mariah — The New Unhinged — was feeling a bit chaotic and asked to be roasted.

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The New Unhinged, a.k.a. Texts From the Crazy Ex You Never Actually Dated

Ever want to eavesdrop on a therapy session where the same person is the therapist, the patient, and the overwhelmed administrator trying to figure out all the insurance forms?

Then this Substack is for you!

Mariah shares her experience.

Her goals.

Her failures that were never totally fatal.

Her successes that still need work.

And her hatred of proper paragraph format.

The whole thing reads like a stream of texts from that stalkerish person who keeps firing off one-liners without giving you time to reply.

Really, don’t hit the reply button yet. Just watch the “…” and wait a few seconds.

Incoming!

But buried in all the

• randomly

• bullet-pointed

• things

You can find some honesty and insight.

The chronically online and digital/electronic lifestyle and increasingly technocratic power structures are dehumanizing, and this is what it sometimes looks like when a human tries to humanize from within the dehuman.

If she ever gets out of this mess, she just might help rescue plenty of others along with her.

And with nearly 2k subscribers as of this roasting, that’s a lot of

• unhinged potential!

As some of us might say, she’s discovering the ethically humane necessity of being a Bad Citizen of all this imposed, hierarchical social order, whether technocratic or not. And she’s Good-Neighborly offering her efforts to others.

She’s unhinged.

But she’s Good Unhinged.

And don’t worry about having your insurance forms in order; they’re unnecessary, you know, like sentence structure.