The country, nay the world, are the grip of a highly contagious personality disorder that spreads from anti-charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and affects how we think, how we behave, even if and when we are thinking and behaving in a way to oppose the guy. Think of how the mainstream media has totally failed us. Think of the narcissistic self-attack on the left.
Bandy Lee, fired by Yale for speaking out about Donald Trump--silenced also by the mainstream media but enjoying a massive resurgence thanks to Anthony Davis and the Meidas crew (more of whom in the next post), is someone you should pay attention to.
Not just for understanding and defeating Trump, but for a vision aligned with mine on how to live the hyperobject: how to manage in a world of politics and culture at planet scale.
She's made not many, but enough, posts on her own site since the election, and this is a really good one that she's just released. She's been talking about the danger of Trump to our individual and collective psyches for years, and has had brilliant ideas for how to cope and deal with and confront the difficulties.
How come? She's a psychiatrist who deals with manipulative psychopaths of Rikers Island. If you can do that, you can See Things. Watch it, most definitely:
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