This is such a complicated thing for me. On the one hand, I'll often direct people toward academic resources by virtue of the fact that the standard for information reliability is so low rn. On the other, the reliability of academic writing isn't free from jeopardy either.

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we are past the point of politics. beneath the fundamental expectations of sociology. We are now at the level of anthropology, studying a seismic shift in our culture, one well-attested and studied for a century. what we are seeing now is the conversion of pathology and iniquity into history. There is a cure. It only works if you apply it now.

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Big believer in this idea

One of the really interesting tonal shifts in children's media lately is a shift away from "let me help you understand this scary and/or thing, but let's put it in a safe context" to "let's occupy you in a safe, non-threatening way"

And that isn't to say there aren't plenty of great kids shows coming out in the former category, but it's important to recognize that it doesn't really seem to be the norm in the same way anymore

What anarchists regularly attempt-and what puppets embody-is a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, or any other authority, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks. Or they do it by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like. This is, clearly, the point of the "puppet intervention," just as it was the effect of the sudden appearance of the Clowns and Billionaires in Philadelphia. They aggressively shifted frames. They also did so in a way that was very much to activists' tactical advantage, and threw the police completely off their game.

David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography