Posts in Time of Monsters
The Pressure Cooker
The Pressure Cooker

If you don’t have the ability to bleed off excess pressure – if you don’t have that safety valve, if the exhaust can’t escape from the gas engine, whatever – then what you have is a very different machine: a bomb.

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Analysis, Time of Monsters, Written by: CameronCameron SummersDavid Graeber, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules, A Paradise Built in Hell, The Shock Doctrine, Herbert Marcuse, Mario Savio, Alexis de Tocqueville Comment
The Cult of the Killer: On Murder-Celebrities (Time of Monsters, Part 7)
The Cult of the Killer: On Murder-Celebrities (Time of Monsters, Part 7)

A warning (unlike my normal excerpt). This post is designed to analyze the bizarre phenomenon of those rare individuals who become famous for committing murder (or for killings that are deemed, legally, to be somehow distinct from murder.) As such, it involves a discussion of the inciting incident for that celebrity. Be aware of this fact.

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Time of Monsters, Written by: CameronCameron SummersPolitics, Right-Wing Politics, Vigilantism, CelebrityComment
Wars and Rumors of Wars (Time of Monsters #6)
Wars and Rumors of Wars (Time of Monsters #6)

None of this matters. People get worked up about these things that frankly do not matter and then it gets plastered all over social media as people look for the newest thing to be outraged by. They are outraged, because their outrage is profitable to the people who work to influence their emotions.

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Analysis, Political, Written by: Cameron, Time of MonstersCameron SummersCurrent Events, Culture Wars, Doctor Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, Space Jam, Cancel Culture, Moral PanicsComment