Mental Health Is Infrastructure, Capitalism Is A Vibe
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Modern Progressive Left believes every personal experience is also a policy, and every policy is also a personal experience, ideally posted by Tuesday with a content warning. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from the Guardian world section and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on feminist political philosophy.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Modern Progressive Left On A British High Street
- Maintains more open tabs than opinions, and that is saying something.
- Refers to capitalism as the system, with a wave at the kitchen.
- Holds any phrase ending in justice deserves a retweet.
- Has explained mental health is also infrastructure.
- Refers to the patriarchy the way other people refer to the weather.
- Holds intersectionality is structurally the only honest framework.
- Maintains a tote bag, a yoga mat, and a tactical Substack.
- Treats the phrase political correctness as a useful diagnostic.
- Refers to the past as a long apology that the present is still drafting.
- Holds the climate crisis is also a feelings crisis.
- Maintains a soft spot for trigger warnings, hard spots for tabloids.
- Refers to comedians as a community in need of feedback.
- Treats any Sunday newspaper editorial as a small act of aggression.
- Refers to police reform as a sort of national couples therapy.
- Holds the Labour Party is both home and disappointment.
- Has explained gender is structurally a hat.
- Refers to capitalism as a vibe with bad outcomes.
- Treats any influencer over forty as a moral quandary.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the BBC is replaced by a cooperative.
- Holds the right answer to every question is also kind.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Reductress.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
The layer of exhaustion here is the point. Not rage. Carefully maintained exhaustion.
The thing about good satire is it makes you laugh then makes you uncomfortable then laugh again.