Imagine a mobile army of metaphors, rhetorical concepts, symbols and stratagems (invocations of privilege, assertions of victimhood, smears, etc) available to legitimate grudges, channel private resentments, initiate conflicts or pursue private agendas. In flat, or insecure social ecologies, like social media or college campuses, it thrives, whereas in strictly differentiated systems, it is practically unknown. As conflict proliferates, its power increases, which generates further conflict, until there is nothing but conflict, at which point it devours itself.
THE OCCULT LEFT
THE OCCULT LEFT
THE OCCULT LEFT
Imagine a mobile army of metaphors, rhetorical concepts, symbols and stratagems (invocations of privilege, assertions of victimhood, smears, etc) available to legitimate grudges, channel private resentments, initiate conflicts or pursue private agendas. In flat, or insecure social ecologies, like social media or college campuses, it thrives, whereas in strictly differentiated systems, it is practically unknown. As conflict proliferates, its power increases, which generates further conflict, until there is nothing but conflict, at which point it devours itself.