It feels like since Donald Trump was gone from the White House, cultural discourse collapsed into a singular narrow continuum from which only a few items at a time can gain traction, but their gravitational pull is as strong as political scandals of the highest order in yester eras. It all started with manufactured grievances courtesy of the American right-wing think-tank machine, and now it has been exported to power a well-oiled engine for political polarization worldwide that puts the pretense of having serious discussions about the current state of modern society through its toughest paces–surely we can find time to tackle wealth and income inequality as a consequence of decades-long neoliberal policies reinforced by American hegemony, but why not talk about the latest Dave Chappelle special instead, a footnote in comedy special history considering the abundance of other problematic entries in the canon?
The fickleness of addressing this issue is that it can quickly be derailed to become a conversation about what questions and values we think are worth amplifying to the fore of public discourse–but that’s easily the least noteworthy aspect of the culture war dilemma. What’s rather at stake is a misevaluation of what resources should…
