Great to meet you, too! And thanks!

Of course! Good to meet you!

Indeed! I’m pretty psyched!

Thanks so much!!!

And thanks for the share!

Lol. That’s bananas. I haven’t used my real face as a profile pic in over a decade.

If you have a medical emergency they’ll just shoot you, like a horse in an old western.

Authorial intent is never the final word, of course. But I dislike this comic and I don’t think Poe would like it either.

I think a lot of it is generational. I first noticed, and complained about, the shift in my 20s. “Dive” became the term to describe local or neighborhood bars. Since then, I surrendered.

“Frankfurt School” gets used that way outside the academy as well, perhaps even more explicitly. Anders Breivik used it in his manifesto, for example. It’s often invoked alongside Cultural Marxism as evidence of how “they” have taken over.

It’s just one of the many ways I am grateful I came of age in a time when I could only inflict my full arrogance on other drunk people at parties.