White text on a black background. The word rampant is highlighted in green. "Rules were made by those in power to keep us down," the girl says. "The conch shell is an attempt to control and silence us, to create an illusion of order in a world that thrives on chaos." "Lene, please," Dr. Howard says. "Let's keep things moving." He's gotten used to her pseudo-intellectual rambling. It's quickly becoming my favorite part of the week. "Sure, let's keep things moving. That's exactly the kind of thing an Anti-Marxists agent of rampant hyper-capitalist consumerism would say. Gotta keep the machine going. Keep up the status quo." "I bet she hasn't even heard of Marx outside of Internet forums," Wright says. I'm mostly glad no one else can hear him, but his increasingly-frequent quips have started to make it rather difficult to keep a straight face. I almost snort aloud. I dunno, I kinda like her. "Of course you do. You haven't read Marxist theory, either. I'm sure you'd get along great."
The #WIPsnips word for today is #rampant. Ironically, I just posted this snippet last week, but it was the only example of rampant across *both* of my drafts.
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