ouij in exile

This is an underrated game. One of the first videogames that managed to take place in “real life,” in that I could navigate the streets of central London without using the game’s HUD arrow

I blame the election of Trump in part on a kind of West Wing solipsism among liberal elites. They retreated from real political life and immersed themselves in West Wing rerun binges. It was a fatal kind of cultural narcissism: they were so beguiled by the fiction that they could not believe that the country would all too easily capitulate to Trump.

My parents worked in an age where your only methods of contact were in person, mail, or maybe a home phone line. Back then, employers would tell you if you were not fit for the job. Now we have email, cell phones, social media, even automated messaging, but they can’t be bothered to tell me anything