The central idea of the current world order is that you should stick to your genital stimulation and consumption of plastic crap otherwise we risk unleashing powerful collective forces with potentially-dangerous outcomes. This is 100% correct, but it’s no way to live.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) June 24, 2019

That is, in the main, Kevin Drum’s entire ethos (and that of most Boomer and Gen X types). Change nothing, it’s all good, just let me die believing my bullshit.