MetaDada ‘Pocalypse Review

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  Pat Strosahl

  

  Watch: Jayson Tatum’s Buzzer-Beating Layup Lifts Celtics to Stunning Game 1 Win Over Nets

  Sports Illustrated - Jelani Scott

  Now, that’s how you start a playoff series. Thanks to an absurd buzzer-beating layup from All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, the Celtics nabbed a 115–114 …

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  Pat Strosahl

  

  The Terrifying Cynicism of Teeter-Totter Wall

  artnews.com - Max Pearl

  On the morning of July 28, 2019, the architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello drove up to an 18-foot-tall barrier of rusted slats that cuts …

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  Pat Strosahl

  

  The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure

  TIME - Nick Hanauer

  Like many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the moment—these and other …

• The stories we tell ourselves... the Metadadapocalypse is a politics played our in a narrative structure with avatars, magic potions, and symbolic weapons that create a fantasy world we get to inhabit without suffering real world consequences. Very interesting thesis...

  

  Pat Strosahl

  

  How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American Politics

  intelligencer - Bruno Maçães

  As America enjoyed the glories of a postwar boom, what had been a serious, hardworking nation began a radical transfiguration. The characteristic …

• This is the record of the unholy alliance of white supremacy and the superrich who want to keep every penny of the money they imagine they “earned”

  

  Pat Strosahl

  

  National Review Is Trying to Rewrite Its Own Racist History

  The Intercept - Ryan Grim

  The magazine invested extraordinary amounts of time and resources into building an intellectual edifice for segregation. Stuart Stevens, who has gone …

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  Pat Strosahl

  

  To Save Its Democracy, the United States Needs a Dose of Its Own Medicine

  foreignpolicy.com - Jeffrey Smith

  Americans have long worked abroad to promote democratic practices and institutions. Now, more than ever, those lessons must be applied at …