Reality Studies

Reality Studies

Polycrisis & Postreality

Reality is a Virus

And like a virus, its spread is virulent and random—and something that will define the 2020s.

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Jesse Damiani
Jan 23, 2021
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PHOTO VIA ALEC LUHN ON TWITTER

This morning, I woke up to a tweet from journalist Alec Luhn containing the above image.

In it, a pro-Navalny protester in Russia marches wearing what is all but unmistakably an homage to the ‘Q Shaman,’ the much-documented, now-apprehended, vegan and horned antagonist in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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