PERVERT: the dark side of INVERT. Giving so much attention to the marginal extremes of human experience can warp our perspective, leading to believing in social conspiracies that blind us to what’s reasonable, ordinary, and practical. Cultureland is where new, better social patterns are honed, experimented with, and developed. But attempting to bluntly replace stable relational order evolved over millennia with half-baked opposites leaves us unmoored. If INVERT isn’t grounded in some appreciation of — and genuine attachment to — an older, more stable social order, it grows increasingly vacuous, isolated, and vengeful.