I found it off base and maddening for this reason, but The Conquest of Cool by Thomas Frank.

I think Seattle Public Library or King County Library may have access. It may be limited to the digital access to the print edition, however.

Except that the 2nd person POV in fiction is presumptuous. This not actually an opinion, but fact, so maybe not unhinged.

Has Seattle finally worn you down to an essential suspicion of good cheer? The thought: what do you really mean? And in that direction are newts, pillbugs, and those fungal filaments where the trees exchange news and data. Or maybe, you were a ray of sunshine!

So you walked right into that, and proposed weather engineering.

Yet the rain didn’t come and the troubles continue.

Only humans can make excellent typis.

If you don't get the occasional, “That cover letter put it all into perspective, man," then you need to up your cover letter game. I have a sweet, $497.50 Zoom class and PDF reading packet for you. Write cover letters that kick open doors!

Why are you not writing? It has become so easy these days. You just say computer I have this idea, and it writes it for you.

The pixels have become so small. Progress.