"Cults and mind viruses run rampant across social media. Some are benign, like the guinea pig owners who post as if they are their pets and gather in the comments section of accounts pretending to be pet capybaras to worship these larger rodents. But at its most toxic, what occurs is similar to a kind of mental pandemic — unhinged ideas jump from brain to brain with unprecedented speed and and often without thought or reflection. For a day, your usually goofy neighbor on Facebook is suddenly jabbering about the threat at the border or how “they” caused the hurricane. Maybe even, absurdly and for no apparent reason, about the size of a legendary golfer’s personal equipment."
They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is
