For all the talk of cozy games and rom-coms, the most popular media of the last decade has been relentlessly bleak: Succession (moral rot), The White Lotus (class warfare as farce), The Last of Us (apocalyptic collapse), Yellowjackets (primal savagery). Even superhero movies, ostensibly for children, are about multiversal collapse and existential dread.
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This is the training ground for the post-truth world. If we can treat a reality show villain as a mortal enemy and a scripted hero as a personal friend, what happens when a politician uses the same narrative techniques? For all the talk of cozy games and
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