is "becoming increasingly horny until one's insightful analyses of american culture are replaced with projections of one's...
is "becoming increasingly horny until one's insightful analyses of american culture are replaced with projections of one's fetishes onto society at large" a grand american tradition and thus the inevitable consequence of being sufficiently in-touch to make the original insightful analyses?
Something something maintaining a membrane of self permeable to the world means the flow goes both ways.
Second thought:
Third thought: I wouldn’t say “replaced”, if I’m more Horny in my cultural trend analysis it’s cause I’m really seeing more Horny on the horizon – the “re-enchant heterosexuality with power dynamics” stuff really does have potential to bend the arc and it really is building up at a folk level “below the radar” that no one else seems to be noticing to theorize, and that combination is my catnip