“Everything is Popcorn”

Everything is popcorn. A game. A spectator sport. ‘What will happen next, if we vote for Trump?’ Popcorn.

When we watch films usually we know the end point: the mouse always wins. It’s the journey that entrances us. This is the escape of story telling Trump, Putin, horse-race journalism wants us to entrap ourselves inside.

Source: Pensees (116)

Horse-race journalism, breathless coverage of “what will he do next” — all of it transforms democratic participation into entertainment consumption. When politics becomes popcorn, citizenship evaporates.

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