1. Lots of people are reading the literature of totalitarianism (Arendt, Orwell) but should also be reading the literature of post-modernism
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I think it has more to do with personal understanding, making sense. Doesn't preclude legal necessities.
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David Foster Wallace. I just reread Infinite Jest, and it's haunting how prescient his writing was.
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actually Baudrillard's Simulacra is fairly cheery, but his Fatal Strategies could be read as prophecy of 4Chan and Pepe.
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media literacy more important than politics in this post-modern world: Trow, Macluhan, Neil Postman, Jerry Mander.
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Yes, throughout I've thought of Trump as the first truly "spectacular" President, beginning w reality show construct as candidate.
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Yep, Reagan and Palin were precursors but he's taken it to a whole new level.
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Yes -- and there's a piece in today's NYT about Guy Debord, Trump, and "Society of the Spectacle"
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