Friday, May 11, 2018

Uncanny Valley

Today's radical leftist and right wing ideologies mirror each other in some ways, such as with their deeper desires to connect to more visceral and emotional realities, and their spiritual abandonment of far-reaching state institutions and projects in favor of localization and secession. 

Occasionally the two sides must face each other, with their mutual hatred, and shudder at their similarities and their ultimate binding to shared fates, by virtue of being trapped in the same trajectories. 

More simply, it amounts to new, local struggles over futures set free by decaying global social systems, struggles between hope and devastation.