Self-preservation is the most fundamental instinct. The urge to protect your children from harm is an even greater impulse, imbuing parents, particularly mothers, with superhuman powers to confront aggressors. Yet for a huge percentage of the American people that’s all gone now. We live in a nation of zombies who go from watching TV on their couch to Taco Bell to the doctor’s office for more poison and then repeat the cycle all over again. (Or they go from listening to NPR to bicycling to work at a nonprofit to eating a kale salad before stopping by the doctor’s office for more poison and then repeat the cycle all over again.)

I just want to take a moment to note how profoundly strange and unprecedented this all is.

Toby Rogers

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-horrordumbor?