Spotify subscribers recently received an addition to their subscriptions in the form of a free Hulu subscription (with ads) now included in their monthly rate.  Great.  So now I have…four…four subscription services piping in really great new movies and TV shows at a rate far greater than any one person (or at least this any one person) could possibly watch.  (By the way, Hulu…I would never pay for a subscription that included ads.  That’s simply not how the internet works.)

And but so anyway, I was poking around my new Hulu account and found their Fyre Festival documentary, Fyre Fraud.  So I gave it a watch.  Good God.

I’ve expressed to you in recent weeks my frustration with the apparent complete fucking dearth of critical thinking skills amongst the American Herd, so I don’t mean to single out millennials for special criticism…they are no more gullible than any of the other dolts walking around claiming to be “informed, educated” Americans.  The Fyre documentary, however, does call special attention to a particularly egregious surrendering of critical thinking skills by millennials which is embodied by the presence of social media “influencers.”   As in that is a valid job title.  Which is absurd.  My initial response was to call them “manipulators,” but that would be giving them far more credit than they deserve: they aren’t actually doing any manipulating.  Manipulating, to me, is controlling another person to act in a way that you want them too, sure, but it is understood that the person would not act in that way had they not been manipulated, otherwise, why bother?  But that’s not the case here: the people being “influenced” are doing so not just willingly, but eagerly,

It’s depressing.  Maybe I should start a cult and take over the world for a while.

N.P.: “If Looks Could Kill” – Transvision Vamp