Consensus is mendacious. A composite of multiple, often conflicting individual realities, consensual reality projects an image that doesn’t exist. Which is another way of saying that all democratic processes are predicated on the paradox that they will produce a result that few of its individual participants will recognise, in terms of it being an accurate reflection of their own reality, but which most will agree to collectively believe in, or at the very least, to live with(in) its fabricated image.
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via The Mire » Suffering through suffrage: Compiling The Wire’s Rewind charts
I feel totally and utterly out-nerded by The Wire. Which is probably exactly as it should be. (My year-end list explanation is here and also a far shorter version here). Guess I should probably start reading The Wire - especially as I love that internet-baiting James Ferraro record that they had at number one.
