The Will Smith thing shows so well I think how neoliberal, libertarian N=1 politics has atomised society.…

The Will Smith thing shows so well I think how neoliberal, libertarian N=1 politics has atomised society. What should be a case of common assault becomes instead a platform for a bewildering array of personal grievances. Everything is always about me. /1

This isn’t just social media making visible a variety of opinions and world views. The views we see increasingly have little connection with anything else at all, except that personal grievance. They’re hardened, absolute views. Not a multiplicity of takes on a common world,…/2

…but millions of totalities, incommensurate with all of the others. Each view increasingly a whole society unto itself. Look at the pandemic, used as a platform by so many to prosecute their particular grievance. Rarely used as a platform to beat Covid itself. /end