Should probably keep you in the loop but I am formulating a theory of where the West went wrong/How We Got To Here... how the strange paralysis that grips us today was created. How the different forces of our age - that started out as separate - have come together to create what is a block against imagining another kind of future than this.
How, money and debt, melancholy over the loss of empire, deindustrialisation, the roots of conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, AI - and love and power have all fed into creating the present time of anxiety and fearfulness about the future.
And whether modern culture - online, right-on and prone to outrage - despite its radicalism, is really also part of the rigid system in the West and in Russia and China. Those in power have run out of ideas.
Everything I've read on this site over the last 8 months has cemented it.
We are living in strange days and something is rotten in the states of America. But your problems are part of something bigger that you can't see.
Anyways, I'm blathering on. I think, ultimately, the easy part is always criticism. The difficult bit is creating a road map to the right destination, finding different possible roads from here into the future.
But, you know, so long as it makes you feel better to out some porn star's gf.