THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY — A MARVEL EPISODE ON STEROIDS
Grace Notes | The American Presidency — A Cinematic Spectacle THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY — A MARVEL EPISODE ON STEROIDS THE SPECTACLE, THE BILLIONS, THE DATA, AND THE MACHINERY OF POWER The orbit of the incredulous that pervades the current presidency of the United States of America seems to magnify into realms of distortion that are simply out of this world. News, global, international, and domestic, has become the instantaneous syringe of baiting stimuli, feeding an appetite for more. The world of intelligence, algorithms, and social dissemination keeps populations informed, influenced, and perpetually stimulated by every breaking news headline. And before one extraordinary revelation can be reasonably absorbed, another arrives to displace it. Pete Hegseth, with the expressed support of the Commander in Chief, advanced plans for a military execution to be publicly livestreamed, and America went aflutter. The execution of Nidal Malik Hasan has been reported ...
