What blows my mind is the gun culture. I don't live in the US, and from the outside it sounds absolutely bonkers and caricaturesque that one can just take their paycheck and legally purchase a firearm like in the Wild West. It wouldn't be the first time someone experiences culture shock though. Or the last.
Yes. b.) is to a.) what a wank is to a relationship. That's why I think we'll see the end of performative activism when people stop pleasuring themselves.
Man what an analogy. You are right, everything we build these days is so expendable. The throwaway era. The only thing left from our time for tourists of the future to pay guided visits for is the continent of garbage drifting through the Pacific.