Macrodoses #5: The Election

I think a lot of people my age and older have--consciously or not--imagined Trump’s success in 2016 as the commencement of a kind of brief chaotic period through which we merely need to survive, until a new period of stability can commence. This is the logic behind billing every election as “the most important of our lives”: We just need to beat Tr

We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6

Time itself has been cycled into the ballot box, with politicians and their parties focusing with blinkered attention on whatever it will take to entice voters at the next election.