Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

We’re talking here less about wattle-jowled speeches on the need to get Big Government off backs that are marching stolidly into an affluent dreampast than we are about those speeches’ and that somnambulistic march’s inevitable trickle-down—the way, as ‘average’ American incomes soared and business revved on behind-the-scenes yen, the same popular electronic landscapes the rappers have mined in their effort to mirror a here-and-now began pulsing with the signals of a whole new yuppoid aesthetic, an attitude we all pretended was cultured, so-very-phisticated, so here-and-now.