(This is necessarily a simplification, as Galaxy and F&SF also had their house styles, but again, the submission round often started with Campbell, and Campbell was known to like particular things in his stories. Writers wrote to him and/or would get edited to better conform to his liking.)

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"The Golden Age of SF" was also editorially mono-polar, in that writers tried to sell to John W. Campbell and Astounding/Analog and then would submit elsewhere when he passed, so even other magazines could have Campbell's feel/tone to their stories. It was the "default" style of the entire era.

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there’s probably more drugs on “sober living” facilities and in rehabs than there are on the streets and the people who run those rackets like it that way.

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Matthew Perry’s sister said he spent $7 million dollars trying to get sober. That’s very clarifying of the predatory sober living industry, which profits off of people staying sick. capitalism doesn’t want you to be free of any addiction

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Well acquainted with that face

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