Is anybody else watching Justified?

It's been a really good season of tv, and last night's episode now has me thinking that this might achieve what (so far) only The Shield and Breaking Bad have done. I really think this last half-season is gonna do justice to the themes and style of the show, and are gonna be surprising, yet inevitable. I'm pretty excited about it.

Owen said it perfectly, with a forum format, we all have exactly the same context if we're willing to not be (very very) lazy.

Absolutely, yes.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Chrystie, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a podcast. That is not the case! The fanboys have taken billions of page-views out of this network, and now they must put them back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are a young man who thinks in terms of communities and peoples. There are no communities. There are no peoples. There are no fanboys. There are no fangirls. There are no geeks. There are no nerds. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of social-media. Page-views, shares, follows, favourites, and retweets. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Chrystie? You get up on your little 128kbps audio stream and howl about Narrative and Payoffs. There is no Narrative. There are no Payoffs. There is only DIF, and FIYH, and WAYDM. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the fanboys talk about in their councils of state, the Hero's Journey? They get out their page-view counter, clicks-per-minute, social-media-network graphs, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their advertising revenue streams, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of commentary and character-arc, Mr. Chrystie. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of clickbait. Podcasts are a business, Mr. Chrystie. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Chrystie, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no fanwank, hit-whoring or entitlement. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Chrystie, to preach this evangel.

It's a good thing that Humphrey Bogart and Benedict Cumberbatch became actors, because the only other place we'd be destined to see those names appear would be on a sex offender register.