Thanks. I have various ideas I've been tumbling around in my head and putting out for comment for years and they do tend to function as a more unified whole than can be easily expressed. So it's more matter of trying to develop a theme to an essay and incorporate, or not, various of the ideas in ways where they mutually support each other.

Some of these ideas do tend to crack open some pretty strongly held beliefs, so I try to not be too polemical, or confrontational about them, so that they get people thinking before their emotional responses kick in. Sort of getting the foot in the door, before it gets slammed.

Here was an essay from early in the year, where I did include that overall point;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/peeling-away-the-layers-of-performative-social-mania-62402fc18336