If the reaction to The Life of a Showgirl has taught me anything, it’s that my life, apparently, codes very conservative to a meaningful segment of the population. I am married to a man. I have two children. I live in the suburbs. I go to church. These sentences are true, with variation, for most of the people around me. Never mind that I am a college-educated suburban mom, which means the Republican party has pretty well written me off. Never mind that I own a new media company and make my living on the internet. This isn’t about ideology or facts or contradictions. It’s culture. It’s aesthetics. It’s symbolism.
I’m not upset. I’m curious.
There is a whole world of observation and understanding at work in how we understand each other, layers and layers of meaning being made and remade and interpreted and mirrored and changed and made again. I think
In this conversation, Cy breaks down:
Why the red hats are so significant to MAGA
The importance of memes
Groypers, incels, red pilling, black pilling, edgelords and looksmaxxing
How politicians can meet the moment for a population that, by and large, feels like everyone is getting screwed, everywhere, all the time
