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
Dismantling their world
Trump's people are angry and frightened
And with good reason.
We humanists are dismantling their world.
Deranged by their decline
Deranged by their decline, white people pretend that they have magic powers.
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.
In the News
Space Karen is a 2022 American political science fiction horror film about a deranged politician (Marjorie Taylor Greene) who releases the Jewish Space Laser Virus into the Fox News network.
The Matt Gaetz Uncancelled Tour is an ongoing political street theater event conducted by US Representative Matt Gaetz.
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Madison Cawthorn January 6 Blood Red Gloves and Hunting Jacket Rally
- Matt Gaetz Uncancelled Tour
- Space Karen
- Union and Confederacy