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And because the lynching episode it recalls was perpetrated by two white men against a third white man, it gobbles up convenient assumptions about “us” versus “them.”

Filmmaker Kevin Willmott put it another way in The Nation: “The Confederacy has gobbled up the Union…The entire nation is capitulating to the new Confederate States of America.”

In total, the American people, and their ability to live full and meaningful lives, are being gobbled up by what political theorist Nancy Fraser describes as “cannibal capitalism.”

You don’t feel that guilty gobbling her empty calories.

Other social networks such as Instagram, YouTube and TikTok have held people’s attention and gobbled up ad dollars through short-form videos.