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Anyway, where was I? Ah yes, how to stop hating inconsequential things.
But it did make me think about what an extraordinary waste of time hating inconsequential things is.
McCarthy made herself a target of sexist condescension, the thinking goes, by writing primarily of inconsequential things, by being "minor" in her choice of subject.
She told me that she would warn young women that there were lots of apparently inconsequential things that they would be judged on, like their hair styles.
Deliberate or not, by using observational comedy to cover maddeningly inconsequential things, Acaster has refreshed the "have-you-ever-noticed" format that has become hackneyed in recent years.
Really important things are commanded, important things are instructed, quite important things are taught and inconsequential things are shared in an involving relevant dialogue.
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In the essay, Chesterton talks about how the vow has become an inconsequential thing.
He now walks onto the stage less like that inconsequential thing, a rock star, and more like Guthrie or John Lee Hooker.
But at the same time, it strikes me as exactly the kind of meaningless and inconsequential thing that Malcolm Gladwell was talking about when he pooh-poohed the role of social media in political change.
Of course these are small, inconsequential things--made into mountains as receptacles for my anxiety about the big things.
Obviously I've thought about this extremely inconsequential thing quite a lot.
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