a history of the united states but it divides the countrys story into eras on the basis of what the prevailing moral panic is
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I like this wording more
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I really need to buckle down and write up my theory on this as a set of Substack posts.
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I'd say a moral panic is "sometimes people are worried about stuff for derp reasons / beyond the scale of the threat / that doesn't exist", and when a bunch of people are worried about the same thing they feel more confident that they aren't being derp because they have backup.
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I like this take + aligns with politicians using things like abortion / marriage as platforms. But not sure every panic is like this... was the Satanic Panic used for political reasons...?
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No no moral panics are the consequence of bored mothers not getting enough attention from their husbands
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Ah, like when Chad Momsexer quelled the riots of Berrshire in 1369.
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