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Trump admin boot-up feels less like public figures assembling in polis, more like cast of bad household reality show arriving at the 'house'
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I'm very much in Hannah Arendt thought space right now. It's stark how Trump is completing her idea of the householdization of public life.
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This is the 'death of the public' she foresaw. For now, the market remains a public, agora pinch-hitting as an inadequate polis. Won't last.
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Market too will be lose its public character and start resembling economics of a household as Trump takes charge. Witness Erdogan's Turkey.
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The narrative of a 'public' in Robin's sense is anchored by an opt-in meaning imposed on human condition. The narrative of a household tho..
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...is something like an imagined history of an imagined family -- the neopatrimony to use Fukuyama's term -- that leaves no room for opt-in.
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