I do appreciate the NyT consistently being evil.
If I am ever in doubt about a policy (say, net neutrality, which took a long time to understand), you can depend on the NYT be on the side of evil.
So, look at their recommendations and know the polar opposite is good.
If you skip past GP's reposting of Twitter claims and READ THE ACTUAL STORY, you'll find the NYT is NOT saying "now is the time for cannibalism." If anything, the article is pushing a vegan lifestyle and saying that anyone who's not an urban woke POS is inclined to cannibalism.
As to what may be fueling the desire for cannibalism stories today, Ms. Lyle, the “Yellowjackets” co-creator, said, “I think that we’re obviously in a very strange moment.” She listed the pandemic, climate change, school shootings and years of political cacophony as possible factors.
“I feel like the unthinkable has become the thinkable,” Ms. Lyle said, “and cannibalism is very much squarely in that category of the unthinkable.”
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More generally, Ms. Summers thinks that the recent spate of cannibalistic plots could also be commentaries on capitalism. “Cannibalism is about consumption and it’s about burning up from the inside in order to exist,” she said. “Burnout is essentially over-consuming yourself, your own energy, your own will to survive, your sleep schedule, your eating schedule, your body.”
Ms. Moshfegh said her theory was “that it might be an antidote to the actual horror of what’s happening to the planet.” Like Ms. Summers, Ms. Moshfegh at times couldn’t stomach her own work, describing the process of writing about cannibalism in “Lapvona” as “a bit disturbing.”
I could easily see the NYT promoting ghastly lifestyles for the Little People while Our Betters/their editorial board feasts on steak and lobster tail. That's not happening in this article, but GP has no problem with click bait sensational articles.
If I didn't know better, I'd say GP is a NeverTrumper front org trying to making conservatives look stupid.