In the Last 50 Years, We've Had an Increasing Alienation of American Life

Andi: Over the last, you know, forty or 50 years, since the 19 seventies, we've had what daniel rogers calls the age of fracture. You have this increasing alien of american life, plus the sort of power structure that i described a little bit earlier," he says. "We need to think these mass metaphors, the metaphors of the masses, really make sense for how power is operationalized in our actual, actually existing society"