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Peter Lawler used to look at the incoming entitlements crisis, and then ironically advise young people, after unironically advising them to have lots of kids, to "take up smoking, and really stick with it." Even if done unironically, that makes way more sense, both as a civic and personal decision, that your decision to vax, and even with the excuse of something as nice as X/Lobos/Blasters. For besides gambling with your health, you compromised with and abetted the gathering tyranny of our time (as did they). See my "We Know What You Did Last Summer" and Maragaret Anna Alice's "Are You a 'Good German" or a 'Badass German'?"

Not that I don't respect those who live for music over 'securitarian' longevity, and you probably smoke anyhow, but still...

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Peter Lawler used to look at the incoming entitlements crisis, and then ironically advise young people, after unironically advising them to have lots of kids, to "take up smoking, and really stick with it." Even if done unironically, that makes way more sense, both as a civic and personal decision, that your decision to vax, and even with the excuse of something as nice as X/Lobos/Blasters. For besides gambling with your health, you compromised with and abetted the gathering tyranny of our time (as did they). See my "We Know What You Did Last Summer" and Maragaret Anna Alice's "Are You a 'Good German" or a 'Badass German'?"

Not that I don't respect those who live for music over 'securitarian' longevity, and you probably smoke anyhow, but still...

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