outgrowth

The rise of the meme costume might be seen as an outgrowth of the trends that prevailed before it, except today the primary aspiration is attention.

The cheers were an outgrowth of the party’s efforts to reclaim the rhetoric of patriotism, couching its mix of economic and reproductive rights promises as a “freedom” agenda.

The effort to change the town’s name started in 2020 as an outgrowth of meetings among concerned county residents who went on to form the group Citizens for Healing.

As such, America’s democracy crisis not just about “politics” but an outgrowth/distillation of many other and deeper societal troubles.

I think about those shame-centered questions, statements, and failed attempts at connection as the leaves on the tree, outgrowths of a story that we have repeated enough times that it has formed a formidable trunk.