I think hotboxing is the right metaphor. The creeping politicization of everyfuckingthing from late night TV to video games.
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Other political cultures have tried mightily to bubble themselves--that's how you get Christian heavy metal--but it's hard.
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By comparison, the prog bubble has been nearly effortless. A nice snug warm bath of righteousness, fear, anger, hatred.
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The news sustains it, your hobby sustains it (remember when Rolling Stone covered music?), you get it piped hot & fresh...
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Just a nozzle of fear, hate, sentiment and heroics. Remember Upworthy? And of course your friends all agree.
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And if they don't...they know to keep their god-damned mouths shut, don't they?
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Honestly, it's pretty glorious. Living that way must feel *amazing*. Too bad you're working for a crime syndicate.
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And too bad it's all lies, grim fairy tales, ogres and brave pious people slaying them on buses by clapping their hands.
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Abject reality failure. The experts are feebleminded, syphilitic babblers. And they're just carrying on as they did.
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People know to ignore Breitbart and Fox News, rightly, but no one should EVER look at Vox or CNN again. But that sweet high...
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<insert entire oeuvre of WSB with all the parts on junk underlined>
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