Populist symbolism travels by detaching feeling from place, consequence, and thought, then giving borrowed socio-psychological anxiety the dissimulating smoke and mirrors of a theatrical political and identity performance.
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Everyday Exasperation: Traumatic Tyrrany
Most people, across most periods of history, have lived less under grand political visions than under a weary determination to survive whichever charlatan, tyrant, or narcissist happens to drift into power at a given moment and in a given place. Populations are carried along in different ways. Some are swept up in the intoxication of […]
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