It’s a performative, hyper-reactive state of constant agitation that defines the current moment: Crash-Out Culture. It is a manufactured state of being, and we are all, to varying degrees, complicit in its engine. They no longer want to serve an audience; they want to capture and hold them in a permanent consumer pen. By fostering a culture of constant outrage, corporations have turned consumers into “crabs in a bucket.” Christopher Moonlight is an animator, special effects artist, and the director of the ‘Award This’ winning movie, The Quantum Terror.