To this end, I want to make a pitch to you regarding the democratic primaries: vote for nobody.
Read MoreAs I hit “publish”, I hear Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s voice in my head, saying “You understand, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.”
Read MoreI’m coming to the conclusion that the 2010s did not actually exist. The time passed, certainly. People were born and died. But, from a cultural perspective, I think it’s a dead end that doesn’t lead anywhere in particular.
Read MoreThis led to a great deal of discussion, in that uniquely useless way you find on social media, about political strategy. As usual, the discussion shrank from attacking the right to punching left – specifically, the anti-electoral left. The thought was that the right wing got here through voting, so surely the problem was that there were people on the left who thought that voting was a bad idea. This, of course, betrays almost as bad a grasp of history as the court did when they argued that abortion had no roots in the traditions of the United States.
Read MoreKayfabe is a seamless or attempted-seamless presentation of a character in an effort to maintain audience engagement. Some people may be unaware of the lie, many people are, but they decide to go along with it. It’s about seeing where the performance goes.
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