MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Liberal

  • The Compromise

    Marcus adjusted his Hermès tie in the reflection of his office window, forty-seven floors above Manhattan. Below, protesters marched through sleet, their signs dissolving into papier-mâché resolve. He’d meant to join them. “I really was going to go,” he told his reflection. The reflection nodded. It always did. Instead, he turned to his computer and…

  • “Everything Is Fine, Except When It Isn’t”: The Ideological Catastrophe of False Equivalence

    In the image before us, we encounter a political compass that deftly captures the underlying absurdities of our contemporary ideological landscape. Each quadrant satirically reduces the moral and political concerns of a particular ideological position to a singular, paradoxical statement: everything is framed as a dire issue except for the most egregious examples of that…