This took me forever to write, but let me assure you: it’s 10,000 words long and has everything. Let people enjoy things!

“Here’s the tea, sis: The giant skeleton represents American consumer culture distilled to its essence: buying things we don’t need, with money we may not have, to impress neighbors we may not like, using products made overseas by workers we’ll never meet, generating waste that will outlast our civilization, justified by appeals to fun and normalcy, amplified by social media, commercialized according to formulas developed by canny marketing geniuses more than a century ago, and protected from critique by rhetorical shields that collapse discourse into “let people enjoy things.””