Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“What I want to suggest is that the true divide within the political world is between indulging this – the strictly fictional entertainment world of hate-your-neighborism, GDPism, and meaningless abstraction – and recognizing others as your equals. The former is designed as a series of business plans, and as reports from pollsters and consultants, all to make you confuse a coherent politics with dutiful obedience to the state and a shrinking set of global companies. To me, this could never be a valid mode of political life, but is only the cynical embrace of a thoroughly commercialized and powerless performance of identity.” (11/04/25)