The internet’s fandom-generating culture creates fantasies of the powerful that imprison us in their delusions.
and take it private. Thus ensued projection so intense it might as well be astral. Musk’s proposed takeover has led his fans to celebrate the coming of a social media utopia, one more giant step on our stairway to a Martian heaven.
Stories bind us together, and woe betide anyone who forgets it; there is no perfectly rational and coldly logical way to replace the role of narrative in our lives. We’re meaning-making machines. More than anything else, that is what makes us human: the ability to imbue the inherently meaningless with the most elaborate and consequential of meanings. When it comes to politics, that means storytelling is often at the heart of it, and stories need heroes, villains, and narrative arcs.
And we cannot hold them accountable for this if we let the reality of their power get occluded behind glories of badly photoshopped memes.Ruth Bader Ginsburg is instructive here, even if it’s far too late to do anything productive. There was great debate about whether Ginsburg should’ve retired when Democrats last held a majority in the Senate, in order to make way for a young liberal jurist who was not at risk of dying in office at the worst possible moment.
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