Source: Quillette
by George Case
“Political culture in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder on 10 September 2025 has followed a predictable pattern. There was the original sequence of discrete events (the shooting, the hunt for an assailant, the arrest of a suspect), followed by the volumes of public speculation, accusation, irreverence, and invective that crop up around them. Some of this arises spontaneously, but much of it is cultivated by platforms where outrage — about the news, about others’ offensive failure to be properly outraged by it, about the offensive outrage aimed at anyone who’s not outraged, and so on — is the main subject, and the main product.” (09/24/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/24/rage-is-now-the-machine-angertainment/