The strangest thing about losing Mac Miller isn’t just that the music stopped. It’s that an entire generation lost the person who was growing up at the exact same pace they were.
Most artists build a myth. Mac built a mirror. You could trace his exact emotional evolution from teenage carelessness to deep existential anxiety to a quiet, fragile acceptance; album by album.
When an artist like that dies, you don't just mourn their past work. You mourn the wisdom they were supposed to give you five years down the line, when you both got a little older.
They are doing what he asked them to do. They are doing exactly what one would do if you believed what he was saying. Don't act surprised.
Republicans elites convinced themselves that Trump is taken seriously, not literally. Millions take him literally.
Police tear gassed peaceful Democratic protestors so that Trump could hold a Bible for the cameras. But pro-Trump protestors have successfully breached the US Capitol building without so much as a single pepper ball.
Funny how that works out.