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Category: On Political Theatre

Field Note 3.1 (b): The Phantom Pronoun

Sep 20, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Language and Manipulation, On Political Theatre

The Fog of ‘They’: Macbeth, Propaganda, and the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder “And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.” —Macbeth, V.iii In the last waypoint, The Iron Key, we reflected on time,…
Field Note 3.1 (a): The Blasted Stage —Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning Theatre

Sep 1, 2025

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by

K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Political Theatre

We cannot lean on prophecy or conspiracy. We have only history and inference when we measure the depth of Trump’s “vaulting ambition” — and the lengths he’ll go to cheat death, beat the law, rig the system, and make himself immortal. Kierkegaard saw it clearly: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be…