This book is incredibly informative and insightful. The power of a shitposting, nihilistic subculture to influence the language and arguments that form our discourse is disheartening but necessary to understand. ...more

I remember reading an interview with David Simon about the real life people that inspired the main characters on The Wire: The street level wheelers and dealers that sway with the tides of power and sometimes influence it in their own weird way, all connected in a twisted ecosystem. Heroes and villa ...more

IT CAME FROM SOMETHING AWFUL is a better version of KILL ALL NORMIES (a book that many people, including myself, overrated at the time of its publication but whose flaws are now clearer in the wake of Angela Nagle's open embrace of right-wing positions and personalities.) Beran benefits from his pe ...more