I think one interesting detail of this is: Gen Z didnt view *themselves* as prepolitical during the Pokemon GO summer

Do you think you could see this duality of Trump-McConnell as a reverse of Zizek’s two faces of (espc Nazi) fantasy?

You bring up the relationship between theory and practice a lot. I would love to hear an episode about the relationship between non-academics and theory. "Read theory" is something you see often online as a response to liberal-to-right-wing leaning people (although leftists do throw it at each other) asking questions about leftist politics or how things would work in a leftist society, etc., sometimes as a way to shut down the questioner and sometimes to genuinely tell the person that their questions have already been answered within theory. This brings to mind the question: how should we understand the relationship between non-academics and theory? (or maybe more specifically, between working-class people and theory).

In a weird way, as with technocratic administration of the economy, it seems like there is a paranoic or perverse knowledge at work here which seems to add a kind of a-political frisson to the self-presentation/understanding of these guys. Its the point at which they 'know' the election was stolen -that they 'know' the masses are all red-pilled or duped while they, the last 'free-thinking people' have to take the country back - a gesture which uses knowledge to launder out the actual act of political decision. In this way the right wing populism seems to inhabit a kind of ambiguous middle ground between people and elite technocracy. It takes the side of the people but the people who 'know' or who have a special knowledge about technocratic so-called 'mainstream' domination of the people. If memory serves, this was already one of the main ideological gestures of the Fountainhead. Seems to be further testament to how reflexivization/super ego is effecting the petit-bourgeouis position.

A good example of moving the field itself, keeping in line with the Nolan discussion in the previous episode, is the field being destroyed in the dark knight rises.

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