At the brilliant and funny
’s suggestion, he and I decided to do a short video conversation about Trump and the Monstrous.As you probably already know, “monster” comes from a Latin word that meant “to show” and sometimes “to warn,” and monsters were seen as symptoms of a world out of balance. Using this idea, we discuss how philosophy utterly fails to give any insight into the morbid symptom that is Trump, and how only the mythic gives us a chance to comprehend the moment we’re in.
Highlights from this one hour conversation are countless, including jokes about toddlers with power drills, how
is a lot like a tranquility grenade, and solar panels on concentration camps.If you’ve not already subscribed to Miga’s substack,
(and yes, I absolutely mispronounced it!), please go do so. And tell him to finish his book, please.
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