From Nicholson Baker’s A Box of Matches, regarding Marines’ predilection for short hair: “They want to look like penile tubes of warmongeriness.”
But it’s not just hair, is it? It’s Farage with a machine gun; it’s Milei’s chainsaw; it’s President Bonespurs renaming the Defense Department The Department of War. It’s elderly schoolboys indulging in performative idiocy and it’s at once dangerous and deeply, deeply boring.
(And yes, the death of Charlie Kirk and all the platitudes and hypocrisies that follow in its wake come from the same place.)
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