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Cancel culture may not be brand new, but it has certainly escalated to a point where it can no longer be ignored or regarded as a fringe phenomenon. Hardly a day goes by that some household name is not tagged as having violated some cultural rule and therefore forfeited his place in the cultural zeitgeist. …
I recently had an interesting (and short, because he quickly blocked me) conversation on Facebook with a self-styled “anarcho-primitivist” named Justin Stout. He claimed that “economics is a form of brain damage” and went on to make his case thusly: Nomadic gatherer-hunters produced nothing. A hunter does not produce wild animals. A gatherer does not …
Going to the circus has always been something that I very much enjoy, and it saddens me to think that future generations may be denied the same pleasure. Opposition to the circus is quite the cause célèbre lately and now it has even invaded Idaho. Though the stated cause is protecting animals from “cruelty,” the …