It’s still too soon to tell how the agreement with Iran will play out: Maybe Israel and Hezbollah will scuttle it by continuing to fight. Maybe the gap between the two regime’s interpretations of the terms will grow until the whole thing breaks apart and the war restarts. Or maybe it will go forward as the implied admission of America’s defeat it appears to be.
Other stuff happened this week as well: the Obama Center opened with the kind of all-star line-up Trump dreamed about for his Freedom 250 celebration. The UFC bout on at the White House sparked an online discussion of what masculinity really is or ought to be. The reflecting-pool fiasco continued to the predictable stage of Trump blaming somebody else for it. And Ukrainian President Zelenskyy started making good on his pledge that “If Ukraine burns, Moscow will burn.”
But the featured post has little to do with any of that. Instead, I’ll be pointing you at an essay on A. R. Moxon’s blog The Reframe, where he connects the way our system works to the stories we tell in our mass media. Make a hero out of Tony Stark, he claims, and you’ll wind up with an Elon Musk. The significance of superhero myths is an old interest of mine, so this post resonated with me.
That should be out shortly. I hope to post the weekly summary around noon EDT.
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