The left is, as it should be, materialist in its analysis. At the end of the day, it recognizes that the cage is made institutionally and structurally and materially. The assignment of blame as a project finding narratives of responsibility that ascend to the highest level is fundamentally beside the point. This is the morally deflationary element of marks that gets lost on the internet. No matter what your putative politics area. Marks explicitly tried deflate the moral component of politics that dominates liberalism. And i think you like neo reactionaries, but very ly identify the american condition as having become locked within an iron cage of sorts. What sort of cage do you think we are in? And