I've been bothered for years by the phrase "Cracky is catharsis." It's the ultimate evidence of cosmic illiteracy. There's no release, no purification of vestigial emotional organs in the Cracky phenomena. If anything, Cracky is cathexis, but the perverts and the carnival marks are unwilling or unable to change their sacred vocabulary which has, itself, become the object of cathectic adulation. It's all very tentative masturbation. "Cracky is catharsis" is an orgone accumulator. "Cracky is catharsis" is an ideological gang sign used by interdimensional vampires and jerk-off engines to recognize one another from across urinal privacy shields. "Cracky is catharsis" is pissing up a rope and then looking up to see how your work turned out. "Cracky is catharsis" is "fuck you and die" once too often or once not often enough. Please end my miserable and stupid life. I would like to give up.