We live in an age utterly saturated with symbols. Logos, flags, slogans, hashtags, color palettes, buzzwords, acronyms, chants, labels, and ideological shorthand dominate nearly every corner of public life. Everyone is drowning in them. Leftists, progressives, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, anarchists, religious folks, spiritual-but-not-religious folks, centrists, radicals, reactionaries, doomers, optimists, nihilists who swear they are notContinue reading “The Cult of Symbols and the Comfort of Meaningless Noise”
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WAR, BUT MAKE IT NORMAL: AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS FOR THE UNINTERESTED
So guess what. It’s January 3rd, 2026, and the United States has decided that why the fuck not, it’s a great day to start bombing another country’s capital. Yep, airstrikes on Caracas. Explosions, low-flying aircraft, sirens, screaming, the whole cheery package that humanity has absolutely nailed at this point in history. The kind of thingContinue reading “WAR, BUT MAKE IT NORMAL: AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS FOR THE UNINTERESTED”