EricS - > This is all about holding a position that the society you live in is illegitimate, and wanting to act out your > animosity toward it or contempt for it, as a kind of defiant expression of some kind of agency.
Well stated... I think this captures a lot of the degenerate behaviour of the disenfranchised (real and imaginedly so) in general, but as it has come home to roost as "whitelash" it is more painfully and evidently self-defeating. The clown-show that was the Jan 6 attempted insurrection really put a cartoonish face on it, albeit a dangerous one. The continued dribble of new arrests, of court proceedings, and the strange defenses/pleas coming out of that really reflect this self-defeated stylization. Same with the Congressional (and other) Trumpeteers continuing to step more and more on their own clown-shoelaces as they try to have it both/all ways. Goodbye Sydney Powell, goodbye Rudy Guiliani, ... who is next? > Max Rose, I think it was, had some sort of good comment about this. > We have to break out of the death spiral of having this as the > motivation if we are to break out of the death spiral. Nicely recursive. I think too often we have to bounce off of some (real or imagined) bottom to reverse that spiral... in these times I fear there is "no bottom", false or otherwise. -SteveS - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
