Aug 17, 2020
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Too many people in 2016:
“Let’s elect Trump. How much worse could things possibly get?“
Where we’re at in 2020:
“U.S. veteran wears face mask to shield himself from deadly unchecked pandemic while guarding neighborhood post office box to safeguard democracy.”
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I think most people realise that for all its complexity contemporary society is an artificial construct that can be moved offstage at a moment’s notice, as people find at times of war, as I found during the Second World War as a child in Shanghai. You know, reality is just a stage set that can be pushed aside, and a very different set of rules can then apply. — J. G. Ballard (via inthenoosphere)