Think tanks have become the last redoubts of authority, even if no one knows what they actually are.

"The thing is patriarchy. Epstein is patriarchy. Preying on young women is patriarchy. Distancing the worker from the work is patriarchy. It's all capitalism, patriarchy, all tied up together. I know everyone is tired of hearing the intersectional feminist shit, but it's actually a thing."

Cable news anchors, eager to turn the Mueller probe into a digestible character-driven narrative, have become authors of choose-your-own-adventure storybooks.

"I was playing a lot of Minecraft with my friends and going on all these random servers. Even then it was like, who can build the biggest swastika?"