American Paradox
24th June 2024
ZMan scratches his head.
One of the things about the modern age is that the public statements from the centers of cultural production and the institutions are often contradictory. The most obvious are the statements about “defending democracy” which almost always come when an election goes against the beautiful people. Their preferred candidate or party loses and all of a sudden, the democratic result is declared a threat to democracy. It happens so often now that people no longer bother to laugh at it.
It’s always obvious that the ‘our’ in ‘our democracy’ doesn’t include you and me.