Re: <nettime> PTS post trump syndrome - the suicide of the west

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Walter Hill, the director of Streets of Fire, mentioned in an interview 
that he wanted to use every cliche known to man, and create a 
celebration of cliches.

This seems to be the case with the anti-orange crowd, that lived in the 
cliche world of identity politics divorced from the reality, and now 
lives in the equally virtual cliche resentment (with notable exception 
to Godwin rule of substituting "Hitler" with "fascism").

The stated loss to imagine the future looks like the truly most 
optimistic sign so far.

It's unlikely that the new guard won't sink in the cliche world of their 
own, but at least we'll have few days or (can we hope?) weeks of 
confused transition between the two, where patient observers might catch 
a fleeting glimpse of something different. Hakim Bey, anyone?


On 11/8/16, 21:39, Alex Foti wrote:
> i went to bed confident clinton would win, seeing all those long
> lines of people apparently voting to fend off the unthinkable but the
> unthinkable happened

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