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Red Pill. Knopf, 2020.
The writing of fiction premises a shared mooring in certain social facts. What happens when such consensus is dissolved through fractionalization, the willful spread of lies, or the achievement of the former by means of the latter? Though it will take some time for them to become the subject of literature, the events of January 6 themselves present an object lesson in exactly this sort of dissolution. The storming of the Capitol resulting in the deaths of four of Donald Trump’s supporters as well as a police officer yielded a media spectacle that verged throughout on the unreal. Something in the elaborate costumery and foiled eleventh-hour plot of our villain seemed to have been anticipated dozens of times before, in logic if not episode. It’s not that you couldn’t make it up, but rather that any such invention would be redundant. Fiction’s usual vocation had, it felt, migrated into the fabric of the political field.
A group of conservatives and Trump administration officials quietly met in Las Vegas over the weekend to discuss issues including 'woke tech', 'restoring law', and the 'new slave power,' according to a report by Protocol.
Trump officials and conservatives met to discuss woke tech titans at secretive weekend Vegas summit where the tone was very critical and very pro some type of intervention
The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, hosted a Digital Statecraft Summit in Las Vegas over the weekend
Protocol obtained a copy of the agenda and spoke to four people invited
High-profile speakers included US Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios, Texas AG Ken Paxton and former deputy national security adviser Michael Anton
The summit featured a panel on woke tech - which one attendee said was very critical of tech, very pro some type of intervention