our whole society is basically organized around the principle of meme virality now. reality just conforms to whatever makes reporters go “🚨🚨🚨” on Twitter. we’d have elected The Dress president if we could have
it’s funny because local politics are mostly unaffected since there’s no such thing as a local meme going viral. but national politics are propelled by whatever ideas are getting dumped into people’s heads during their four-hour daily TikTok or Facebook sessions