Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
1 min readSep 19, 2024

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Great discussion John. Addiction analogy is spot on. However, the shock and awe of Trump chaos, inconsistencies, cat eating, and terrorist tactics runs much deeper. We think he is running into the ditch, but this is all very strategic and it is taken whole cloth from the Fascist playbook. Even getting shot at could be a Reichstag Fire (Hitler set it and blamed it on the Jews). As Hannah Arendt, in her Origins of Totalitarianism, observed even when the the Fuhrer changes his crazy shit daily, his followers think that they are somehow in on the joke. They think how clever he is to be deceiving the unclean. Trump was made for the so-called INFORMATION AGE. As Harari points out in his history of information, The Matrix , we thought that if we flooded the world with information, the truth would float to the top, but it actually sinks to the bottom.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

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