politics

I am generally avoiding posting about politics ahead of the US elections

That said, I wanted to point out how tired and haggard both candidates look

Every successive election seems to be becoming more exhausting and manic. It mirrors how exhausted the country is

This is arguably more dire than the election itself

every media silo has a corresponding hegemony, each overfitting to imperfectly-informed moral righteousness that justifies any conduct towards outsiders.

2012 was the first cycle that seems to have the acute symptomology. by 2016, facebook + reddit + youtube were explicitly targeted, with print bleeding out ad revenue. user psychometry was considered fair game, and so we're stuck (until there's forced breakup, nationalization, or opensourcing)

hopefully, the exhausting force is brought into the sunlight before we realize p(runaway kleptocracy).