Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

@ghostofchristo1 · A third place · joined 19 Aug 2020

In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.

19 134Followers

3 799Following

16 213Posts total

147.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views6 876this account1 005median for 10K–100K

Reach, %35.94%this account3.31%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.43%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 876	1 005	6.84×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	35.94%	3.31%	10.9×
Engagement rate	2.43%	2.01%	1.21×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.7K31 Aug

110.4K

6.8K

3.6K

1.9K2 Sep

9.1K3 Sep

7.2K4 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.07%31 Aug

3.54%

2.57%

3.24%

2.50%

2.35%2 Sep

1.28%3 Sep

1.12%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes82.6%4 275 in total

Reposts6.6%342 in total

Replies0.7%37 in total

Quotes0.4%23 in total

Bookmarks9.6%499 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Resist employing people whose main qualification is that they are PASSIONATE and just CARE SO MUCH. In practice, CARING SO MUCH is a loaded gun; it can go off in any direction (including, with a certain inevitability, straight back at you). 7.2K views · 73 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Increasingly feel like nothing posted here makes sense anymore unless you understand it as the periodic overflow of discourse and in-jokes from the group chats where all the real action is happening. 9.1K views · 98 likes · 5 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

"We seem to be at a point in history where we no longer face new problems, necessarily, but rather the rapid intensification of problems we know only too well."—me in an article on Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation shortly to be published in Cracks in Pomo by @stephengadubato 1.9K views · 37 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@ghostofchristo1 I worked in college education and got laid off last year, which just so happened to be 18 years from the 2008 financial crisis. I'm sure there's no correlation. 3.6K views · 90 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@ghostofchristo1 Staggering now how many places in Scotland you go where basically everyone working is around my Dad's age i.e. just before retirement. In another decade we are going to be in a very different place, and one most people aren't prepared for. 6.8K views · 215 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@ghostofchristo1 we've spent almost twenty years in Gramsci's interregnum 7K views · 174 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The world ended in 2008, with the financial crisis. Or rather the previous social system ceased to be able to reproduce itself. We’re only now seeing the downstream effects of that. Millions of missing people (never born), euphemistically termed “the demographic cliff.” 110.4K views · 3.6K likes · 323 reposts · 16 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Thrilled for all my mutuals who are in the running to host podcast episodes and have discovered the world of crypto. What exciting opportunities slashing the Twitter workforce (the people you used to be able to report things to) has opened up for us. No side effects whatsoever. 1.7K views · 34 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →