The Costume & Inscribed Violence
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Is the State Sensitive?
It has been said that populist leaders like Hitler or even Trump are really these kind of like power-hungry but empty vessels. So, society creates the character from this malformed putty into a trope and then the person can't turn back from it. Once they are created, we worship or demonize them like some golden calf, some sort of God that we made.
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