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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017

      1. Lots of people are reading the literature of totalitarianism (Arendt, Orwell) but should also be reading the literature of post-modernism

      19 replies 122 retweets 316 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Big difference between Trump (also Berlusconi, Ford etc.) & mid-20th century autocrats is passage from modernism to post-modernism

      6 replies 38 retweets 120 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. Trump is an authoritarian during a post-modern moment, where politics is played out on TV & computer screen, not the street.

      10 replies 49 retweets 119 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. Trump, a malevolent Chancy Gardner, resonates as authentic to Fox audience because he really does watch network & believes what it says

      5 replies 45 retweets 126 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. The populist "doesn't give the people what they want, he wants what they want." (Chesterton). Trump watches TV his supporters watch.

      12 replies 43 retweets 137 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017

      6. Good reading suggestions on TL to this tweet but let me add Debord on Society of the Spectacle, Baudrillard on simulacra, & Jameson

      9:09 AM - 20 Feb 2017
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        2.  🍁  🥃 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚂𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐  🧔🏻  🍁  🇺🇦‏ @markjschilling 20 Feb 2017
          Replying to @extremedignity @HeerJeet

          I think it has more to do with personal understanding, making sense. Doesn't preclude legal necessities.

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        1. Todd Yarbrough‏ @EconoTodd 20 Feb 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          David Foster Wallace. I just reread Infinite Jest, and it's haunting how prescient his writing was.

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        1. Jay Porter 1973-2021‏ @nonfamousjay 20 Feb 2017
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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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        1. Pablo Garcia‏ @prgarc 20 Feb 2017
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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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        2. Bill Kartalopoulos‏Verified account @bkny 20 Feb 2017
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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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Feb 2017
          Replying to @bkny

          Yep, Reagan and Palin were precursors but he's taken it to a whole new level.

          1 reply 2 retweets 17 likes
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        2. Andrew Epstein‏ @AndrewEpstein3 20 Feb 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Yes -- and there's a piece in today's NYT about Guy Debord, Trump, and "Society of the Spectacle"

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        3. Andrew Epstein‏ @AndrewEpstein3 20 Feb 2017
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          https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/trump-and-the-society-of-the-spectacle.html?_r=0 …

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