DoubleQuotes 3, Ouroboros 1
[ by Charles Cameron — nothing terribly new here, just catching up with the last week or so ]
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One quick pointer.. The most significant article I’ve seen this week is Zeynep Tufekci’s Does a Protest’s Size Matter? — which contains the line:
A large protest today is less like the March on Washington in 1963 and more like Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of the bus. What used to be an endpoint is now an initial spark.
I think Zeynep’s right on this one — which, FWIW, makes double images like these a whole lot less relevant:
President Trump’s inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama’s, CBS
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Catching up on other examples of “form” in recent news..
I got this one from Zen, who’d posted it on FB.
This really is a pretty definitive illustration of the stress a president incurs in the world’s most terrifying, not to mention deeply contested, job.
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This one goes without saying.
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And here’s my ouroboros of the week:
As the Chinese proverb goaes:
A man needs face like a tree needs bark.
Would we do well to understand President Trump in terms of an honor-shame dynamic?
