If you want to read something that correctly recognizes the unavoidable contingency of all human affairs, and reliably centers the way feelings and ideas travel from person to person and affect the way things happen, usually you need to read history.

i appreciate that the white house is honestly kind of small and in-the-middle-of-a-city by standards of presidential residences

Understanding the libidinal/emotional appeal of racism and why it makes more sense than the rational economic case of anti-racism for generational GOP voters is what we need more than trying another round of deliverism b/c materialism does not explain this electorate.

There is a problem with people confusing procedural (bipartisanship etc.), policy, and aesthetic moderation. Buttigieg is an aesthetic moderate but a pretty consistent partisan, while someone like Sanders is a policy and aesthetic radical (within US politics) but a procedural moderate

Amazing that this person can write the phrase "more tribal" and then go on to decry colonizers like. Do you _hear_ yourself.

I can certainly believe that the author's intent was healing and redemption, but I don't think that's what's in the text as written. Regardless, if this procs as "heartbreakingly beautiful" for you, I suggest reading better literature.

There's absolutely a doula who does astrology or something.

Well you see they don't have terms for fear and crime because nothing bad happens there ever, so we're already living in a completely batshit version of reality (or one with heavily policed linguistic structures I guess)

Honestly listening to that much crunchy granola therapy speak might be the worst thing this fictional murderer was subjected to.

first off: my own class background means that, like a bunch of the reporters I was dunking on earlier, I've been raised to see having education and a family background of homeownership and professional employment as "privilege" & to assume others were "less fortunate"

Which is to say that even as our means are the same and even our education, I didn't grow up in a family with the same CULTURAL markers of an educated elite class as many of my peers and it can be very weird.

I think class consciousness is, as it exists today, largely vibe-based, and for whatever its worth I've often found myself wrong-footed or just missing the requisite class language when among middle class "elites" in a way that's been. Very disorienting?