The “meth of the masses” analogy would mean that it still has the unhealthy, deceptive and deafening aspects of a drug addiction, but without the “soothing last refuge of peace” part

Then the analogy is spot on.

I don’t see how that’s an adequate example.

It seems like you’re making a bad attempt at a caricature instead of actually explaining.

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I don’t see what makes these things incapable of being present at the same time as democracy.

Seems like these statements are based on feelings, not actual reasoning.

Huh, I remember reading his critique around when Endgame was coming out and thought he just didn’t get it.

Now, after years of the shit the MCU has been pushing out, I see he was ahead of our time.

I remember when they had the same idea around 2014, to ban smoking for anyone born in the UK from 2000 onwards. That would have been easier to enforce.