The allure of dictatorship & the dangers of memes

The failures of neoliberalism and austerity and the failures of the left have contributed to a retreat into cynicism and into a curiosity towards authoritarianism.

Gray and Gold, John Rogers Cox (1942) It’s only been three days since inauguration, and I can tell through the mycelial network that you’re just as exhausted as I am. Maybe, I’ve been watching too much Star Trek. The air is filled with despair. None of us can keep up with the downpour of executive orders, things seem to be changing by the day, sometimes by the hour, and there’s even political analysis about why there wasn’t a mass mobilization during inauguration despite the Trump’s last inauguration being largest single-day protest in U.S. history (only surpassed by George Floyd racial…

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