by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I actually *like* the Pivot podcast — most of the time — but when Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway wallow in their wealth privilege at the beginning of the show — I sometimes just give up.
I mean, COME THE FUCK ON.
If I was younger, I would aspire to be the type of smug, wealthy assholes those two can come off as. But now that I’m old(er) I realize they would never accept me, even if I manage to sell a novel as popular as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
They’re just too smug, too big of assholes to accept someone being a success so late in one’s life. So, I just have to accept that even if I get what I want — to write a great pop novel — I won’t get what I want: some level of “normal” success with all the “cool stuff” that comes with it.
The context of any late-in-life-success I get will just be so different than what I’ve dreamt of all these years that it will be very, very jarring.
