HERE IS NOT THE NEWS
Disintegration edition
The news today is like a series of bizarre clues littering the crime scene of our lives. Like the manifesto of an active shooter, it is replete with garbled threats and weird sketches, its disturbing messages often telling you more about the people who wrote it than the world it is supposed to describe.
This is because the old regime is disintegrating. This moment is made doubly disorienting as the old regime ruled by make-belief.
What you are seeing now is the breakdown of the supply of meaning. This is confusing, as no one knows what to believe any more. It is disturbing, as it reveals that most of what we believed was simply made up - a mass produced product.
Mass-produced belief was the currency of the counterfeit culture we were told was our own, and which is now dissolving and will soon vanish entirely.
Here are a few of my attempts to make sense of this moment of madness.
