Virtue Simp: Emotional Tribalism in the Age of the Current Thing

Virtue simping is the phenomenon of combining a desire to express inner emotions in a public forum with doing so in hopes of pleasing an emotional tribe. Current thingism is any movable cause which is determined by the collective and up for change at any moment. By examining our human instincts to expose private attitudes and lifestyle selections, the author Tennison Long debunks the effectiveness of attempting to satiate the emotional tribe as audience, offering that virtue signaling is no...