Marilyn Manson revelations a good data point for my belief that "moral panics" about dodgy cultural figures by crusty old reactionaries are generally correct.
Your hopelessly uncool dad in 1998: Don't buy his records. He looks like a sex offender.

Smart set in 1998: Akshally he is exposing the hypocrisy & repression of suburbia with self-consciously transgressive etc etc

2021: He was a sex offender.
I know it's well-meant but our really excessive focus on getting people, especially da yoof, to second-guess normal human instincts about dangerous & chaotic individuals is quite bad.
Being normal and wholesome and doing normal wholesome things is in fact good and fulfilling, this is my ideology.
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