Am I the only person who thinks this is weird timing? Our country is in a current headlong rush toward inward-looking isolationism, handing all influence over the world’s economy to a rival superpower, building systematic extreme economic disparity directly into our tax laws, and celebrating fascism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and white supremacy.<\/p>\n
And this is all happening mere months after everybody saw that mini-series adaptation of The Man in the High Castle<\/i>. Don’t get me wrong — I like Philip K. Dick as much as the next guy. But isn’t this all a bit extreme?<\/p>\n
I mean, wasn’t it creepy enough when we were watching this on TV as a fantasy? Do we really need to enact it in real life?<\/p>\n
Or is this what that annoying TV show host with the orange hair job actually meant by “reality television”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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