Ghost Dance USA

"Ghost Dance USA" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

Ghost Dance USA

People in societies under intolerable pressure experience prophecy and superstition.

Symptoms are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression — the first four stages of the five-stage Kübler-Ross model.

Everything but the acceptance.

Commentary

Stockholm Syndrome

Stockholm Syndrome turns to Ghost Dance when Death robs the bank.

So-called White people whose numbers are in decline and feel any emotion about that fact, I am thinking of you.

Doubling Down on Trump

It does seem that a great snake's nest of evil is out and open in the public like never before.

Crazy gun-toting Americans, sure.

But these crazies in office? and it's okay, the GOP is doubling down on Trump?

This is pathology.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Death (nonfiction)

External links

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