Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

by Clay McLeod Chapman

News needed to be experienced in real time. It unfolded faster than you could keep up, unspooling like a chyron ticker-taping away, that endless centipede of information squirming over the screen.

SILLIMAN: What the fuck’s going on, guys? What’re we angry at?

Fax News Brain. That’s what we’re—I’m—calling it. Literal brain rot.

Ironic, isn’t it? The type of world Fax constantly warned your conservative mother and father about, night after night—pumping that paranoia into your parents—is now happening…Cities are full of violence, riots in the streets, rampant with crime and chaos. The right-wing prophesy actually came true, only…it’s not Antifa in the streets. It’s them, our parents, who are attacking.

This is gonna be the new normal: half of the country’s population hosts a demon while the other half has to figure out how to live without them.