They Not Like Us

Ruminations on the nature of despotic people, how they operate with a ruthlessness par excellence, and how the conditions they create affect art and the world.

The conservative cabal of the U.S. Supreme Court. Top, left to right: John G. Roberts, Jr., Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Jr.. Bottom, left to right: Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett.

“Where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere. Because there’s no one like you left.”

— Body Snatchers (1992)

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