Mookie Spitz tears apart the flimsy fabric of modern etiquette, dragging it through the mud of our digital cesspool. What starts as a deep dive into why Nixon chose to resign—bowing to protocol over narcissism—explodes into a sweeping, honest exploration of how those old norms have been obliterated by the almighty attention economy.
Welcome to the age of the troll, where behaving badly isn’t just tolerated, it’s fetishized. Where social media has transformed the human need for recognition into a grotesque carnival of self-serving spectacle, rewarding whoever shouts the loudest, lies the boldest, or insults the deepest. Mookie breaks down how platforms built to “give everyone a voice” ripped open the sealed doors of our psyches, letting our ugliest instincts—the bullying, trolling, attention-whoring—spill out unchecked.
He then drills into the kinky underbelly of this new world order: the bizarre dom-sub power games played out on the global stage. Elon Musk emerges as the ultimate brat—an industry titan in tech and space, but a whiny masochist in politics and media, practically begging for punishment with every impulsive tweet or disastrous PR stunt. Trump stands in as the bloviating dom—less an ideological leader, more a circus ringmaster, expertly wielding shock and outrage to keep the crowd hooked.
Along the way, Mookie folds in everything from Jungian shadow selves to Nietzsche’s delight in moral chaos, Gödel’s obsessive insanity, and even the creative but well-defined roles of BDSM. It’s all woven into a hard-hitting thesis: our troll-fueled culture doesn’t just tolerate contradictions—like a genius who’s also an asshole—it craves them, eroticizes them, turns them into entertainment.
Why? Because in a world drowning in content, the surest way to stand out is to be terrible in fascinating ways. And maybe, Mookie argues, we’re all low-key brats online—provoking, poking, pushing boundaries—just waiting for someone to slap us down and give us the discipline we didn’t even know we were craving.
Elone Musk: Idiot Savant
https://mookiespitz.medium.com/elon-musk-idiot-savant-538d1b34c31a
Why Elon Kiss(ed) Trump's Ass
https://medium.com/@mookiespitz/the-1-reason-elon-musk-kisses-donald-trumps-ass-2bb4c40aac5c
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