Category: Futures
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if the house keeps winning they’ll just burn it down
One of the previous year’s surprisingly difficult lessons has been the need to stop considering reportage from the US as in any way representative of a baseline for circumstances elsewhere.
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internalize the narrative of our own obsolescence
You tell me everyone pisses in the pool, and you’re surprised that I’ve decided I’d rather not swim after all?
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.
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meme opera
All things considered, I guess most USians of my acquaintance would probably rather have the penguins.
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a configuration that can’t possibly be true, and yet here it is
The shock of the same old new.