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Everyone here is in a cult - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions

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What is it about the Bay?

As you get older, you learn to detect a certain facial expression, a kind of wild absorption that characterizes a recent infection by an all-consuming worldview. It’s the look of someone utterly taken over by a subject or cause. It doesn’t signal rightness or wrongness, intelligence or stupidity. It just signals being lost in it, a state that precedes both works of genius and complete disasters. Sometimes, it feels like this is the default facial expression in the Bay Area. The Bay Area is a place of cults. I don’t mean cults in the most literal sense, the kind where people are cut off from…

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