But we can see an interesting trend: as the number of epidemics tails off, so – generally – do the number of major moral panics. We have the red scare, sure, and prohibition and the devil’s music, and filthy literature – but, generally speaking as the number of epidemics tapers off, the moral panics become fewer and slightly more grounded.
Read MoreWell, that was October, and I barely remember it, but I did read some cool stuff.
Read MoreOedi-Politics is the intrusion of patterns of behavior and thought characteristic of family dramas – specifically those characteristic of the bourgeois nuclear family – into the realm of the political. It is the adoption of maternal, paternal, and filial roles by political actors and the determination of future courses of action by the relationship between these roles. In short, when people should be coming to agreements, making compromises, working through problems, they are instead defaulting to playing house. Everything else becomes secondary, and poisoned by this.
Read MoreSunday morning, Edgar sent me an article entitled “Grimes Responds To Zola Jesus Calling Her 'The Voice Of Silicon Fascist Privilege'” from Stereogum (a website I’ve never read anything off of, to tell the truth.) They sent me this article, because they know that I can’t resist reading something that I know will make me angry, especially in the morning because coffee is losing its edge and sometimes you need a shot of fight-or-flight to feel like a real human.
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