Trigger warnings, students who complain that learning about the Inquisition hurts their feelings, middle-aged folks who whine about the need to choose between the inconvenience of traveling for Christmas and the discomfort of explaining the reluctance to do so, extreme political apathy, the failure of all recent protest movements, frenzied pill-popping, the destruction of the concept of workers’ rights by bored amateurs, the shameless peddling of online learning – all of these phenomena stem from the same root. The absolute, extreme terror of being inconvenienced and the pursuit of convenience at absolutely any cost are the guiding principles of the citizens in the post-nation-state.
It got to the point where we are likely to have presidential candidates named Clinton and Bush. Nobody wants to go to the trouble of memorizing a couple of new names because that would just be way too inconvenient.
On a certain level it does make sense: the state is becoming increasingly irrelevant, so why not just replay the old and familiar elections with the old and familiar faces instead of wasting energy and time on coming up with new ones?
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