Listicle with links to pop songs

Let “piece” mean a song, work of art, collection of words, or other product.

Let “maker” mean the artist, author, designer, band, or creator of the piece.

Let “maker’s identity” mean the stage name or the real or fake persona put forward by the maker outside of the piece itself.

Let “maker’s assumed identity” mean the maker’s identity as suggested in the piece any time it is not identical to the maker’s identity.

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Automatic Anti-Atomization Community Guideline

I’ve decided to host this screed by Ermytache which outlines a proposal for self-funded community organization. He affectionately dubs the agency enacting this change “the Corporation,” so named for the way mafioso Harold Shand refers to his organization in The Long Good Friday. This schema is intended to provide a solution to social and cultural atomization, and it’s intended to be achievable with minimum financial investment.

For your convenience, I’ll provide a tl;dr at the end. The full text, which makes the extended case for this model, is reproduced below. All emphasis is mine.

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