Modern Masculinity and 'The Critical Drinker'
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I remember a few years ago when I first stumbled upon a video from a YouTube channel called the ‘Critical Drinker’. It was quite the whiplash roller coaster of an experience. I can’t recall exactly which video it was, but I remember the very fast and very jolting journey from, ‘Hell yeah, somebody agreeing with me about the dire state of so much of the modern movie industry’, to, ‘Oh. Oh no. Oh well, I guess now my algorithm’s doomed to languish in redpill fuc*ery as a result of this!’
Like all the most effective right-wing propagandists in history, it was near immediately apparent that this YouTube channel was using the classic tools of the trade: Identify some area of legitimate dissatisfaction, briefly describ