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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/the-microcomplaintnothing-too-small-to-whine-about.html
It was once considered unbecoming, or annoying itself, to moan publicly about trifling personal ordeals. Now, in a seismic shift for the moral culture, abetted by technology, we tolerate and even encourage the “microcomplaint”: the petty, petulant kvetch about the quotidian.
November 13, 2015