2010s-themed musical where it’s actually framed as a zombie apocalypse and the central plot conflict is about tossing off the expectation you should commit suicide if you get bitten
Missandrei as such a perfect “the point is that’s why playing savior to the downtrodden doesn’t work” character misunderstood as a lesser protagonist is the 2010s in a nutshell
I occasionally remember how mockery of Amanda Marcotte as “Amanjaw Marcotte” for her prominent, squarish jawline; the idea that prominent jawlines were a critical inherited factor in reproductive success and thus personal value; and a renewed idealization of Scando-Germanic phenotypes all coexisted in basically the same circles in 2012
In retrospect I wonder how much of the 2010s “Dark Enlightenment” (and the directly racial stuff, too) was an instinctive realization that Randian Objectivism had faded enough that – especially with Christianity and the residue of Cold War anticommunism fading – there was a space and a need for an explicitly inegalitarian foundation of conservatism
as the ‘10s look back on the '90s
I see hella more people admitting to liking Tori Amos than I remember
but damned if I see anyone willing to mention Ani DiFranco.
