Note: This week’s essay is being sent in two installments since Substack thinks it’s too long to be sent as one email. You can read it on one page here if you so desire. Photographer: Jan Genge | Source: Unsplash A Terrible Beauty Listen: It’s come to your attention that Virustan is fake newsing the COVID19 crisis. Virustan’s president for life isn’t importing masks and isn’t testing his population because he thinks it’s a hoax. Meanwhile Virustan’s citizens are posting videos on Instagram of their grandparents dying in isolation. Wait a minute…. they don’t have money to eat, but they have smartphones? You have no idea, my friend. There’s a hierarchy of deprivation: people with no money to eat buy Android while people who have enough for a daily meal flaunt iPhones.
When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Part I
When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Part I
When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Part I
Note: This week’s essay is being sent in two installments since Substack thinks it’s too long to be sent as one email. You can read it on one page here if you so desire. Photographer: Jan Genge | Source: Unsplash A Terrible Beauty Listen: It’s come to your attention that Virustan is fake newsing the COVID19 crisis. Virustan’s president for life isn’t importing masks and isn’t testing his population because he thinks it’s a hoax. Meanwhile Virustan’s citizens are posting videos on Instagram of their grandparents dying in isolation. Wait a minute…. they don’t have money to eat, but they have smartphones? You have no idea, my friend. There’s a hierarchy of deprivation: people with no money to eat buy Android while people who have enough for a daily meal flaunt iPhones.