We hate to be the ones to break this to you, but civilization is in decline. It's been this way so long, in fact, that even the virile among us now all but fling ourselves toward the excuse of a job poorly done as its own proof of concept--the concept being no one gives a d@mn... So why try?

At least that's the lesson taught to the world at large by the Philly comedy scene this weekend. While it may be true that it takes a village to raise a child, Philly (synechdoche used on principle) comedy scene proves it's also true that when the village neglects to raise the child, the child does not cease to exist--in fact their choices become  Society has broken down, and no one cares to fix it once they've got your attention.

The majority of "creative scenes" that any urban metropolis has to offer have been stunted generationally by the polemics of social media as the @ss end consumer class propaganda. Since the global lockdown forced creative communities online, the seething underbelly of gatekeeper culture has reorganized as socialist concentrated in lawless algorithms

And why should they?