the point here is not that all these guys are intrinsic dolts who should just shut up and go back to PornHub and their gaming consoles; the point is that social organization is now such that they disproportionately lack real, non-digital network ties capable of shaping small-d democratic citizenship

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Just also thinking about the period when blatant racists, nativists, and isolationists found no friendly party in the US system

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one hates to put it this way, but disengagement within this population may be the best bet for society in collective terms, absent a mass spurt of moral growth that is unlikely to materialize given the networks of influence these young men are embedded in

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Some of yall...

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I’m not sure I buy that (about The Silver Chair), but either way, the joke was kind of on Lewis, as it turned out that he was _also_ a wife guy, he just had no idea because he hadn’t met her yet

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