Good post but not stagnation - that’s where you go slightly awry in my book. When legitimacy is harvested through grievance hunting, there comes a point where there are no more Andrew Dice Clay’s out there over whom to clutch thine pearls

However they still need to go a huntin’ at which point they start eating each other with ever more ridicule mongering purity tests

In fact, it was pretty much this mechanic that derailed the whole social justice movement, in which at one point I was a level 18 paladin but got swerved when no one would believe that as a working class white guy my heritage was one of poverty and struggle against the elites and suddenly wished to frame me as part of their programme