Joshua Citarella
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So just how extreme or bizarre are the depths that you've managed to find online?
Were you interested in politics at 12 or 13?
God, no.
Me neither.
Why would you be?
That's the first question that comes to mind.
And I don't want to sound, I don't know, like some patriarch telling the kids to go out and get on their bikes or something.
But I don't think I was really even conscious of politics in any real way until probably my early 20s.
And I still wasn't that engaged.
I might be a particularly disengaged person.
Is this new?
Is the engagement of people in the early tweens in serious political ideas and sometimes like extreme political ideas?
Is that novel?
Libertarian neo-monarchism.
Oh, okay.
That's a more popular one.
That's in the ascendancy.
Right.
Jesus Christ.
Okay, so...