February 28, 2024:
The piece is about the cost of the labyrinth on the narrator's capacity for goodwill — the man who says hey to everyone, slowly depleted by Johnny Mediocrity and his eunuchs joke.
The joke isn't even a tech joke, it's a schoolyard castration pun dressed in technical vocabulary.
The detestation isn't because Johnny is malicious — he's perfectly cheerful, perfectly pleased with himself, entirely unaware. The eunuchs joke as a small daily erosion of the narrator's faith in his fellow humans. The labyrinth full of people making the same joke forever.
˜ Claude