Notes on Paranoia
January 26, 2021•935 words
We're a full three weeks beyond the storming of the Capitol building by a pro-Trump mob, and already (and predictably), the event itself has melted out of sharp focus and into a blurry half-recollection, absent from news coverage and the popular imagination. That's largely to be expected - short of COVID-19, almost nothing is capable of grabbing the spotlight for more than a handful of media cycles - and I'm not interested in the mechanism of trending events or belaboring any point about screen-...
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