Two days ago I had not yet viewed Bill Maher's latest New Rule, so did not guess that by addressing games which run faster but waste more time I'd once again hit close to one of Real Time's topics of the week. It took me a few years to figure out a couple of you watch that show, when I noticed some of my long-dormant posts getting the odd hit in suspicious correlation with Real Time having just run a tangential topic. Like his "eat the rich" segment and usually some other criticism of conventionally safe sociopolitical stances. You do have to wonder though, if a rant by a celebrity sends you back to a blog by some no-name loser, just how few voices are there in society, public or obscure, willing to speak more honestly than a party mouthpiece or a cult proselytizer?
You only have to look at formerly sane figures like James Lindsay or Bret Weinstein sinking deeper into conspiracy theories to realize that even in the absence of authoritarian pressure, audience capture will still do the work of radicalization. As I formerly put it 'this species' obituary will read "morbid sociability" with a hazard sticker for memetic infection' and I have to wonder how susceptible I'd have been to the same crazyward slide, had this blog ever gotten off the ground. Of course in my case, my own incompetence is my saving grace. But in my defense, I ask ya, who could've predicted that obscure game anecdotes and a flat refusal to cut anyone any slack would fail to induce adoration by the masses?
Well, I'm busy bashing FEMale chauvINISTS at the moment, so we'll schedule a cure of faithosis purgatives from... let's say Easter-ish onward? Maybe something about factory farming and checkout jobs? Or, oooohh, "racism week" I've been wanting to do that for years now!
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