{"id":62534,"date":"2022-04-25T15:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62534"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:41:01","slug":"you-are-not-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62534","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not Real"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You Are Not Real<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Shakespeare\u2019s famously gory \u201cTitus Andronicus\u201d is replete with violence, including fourteen deaths. Yet it continues to be performed, and audiences continue to sign up for a frisson of fear and pity, because this is not real.<\/p>\n

After the play, the actors get up, wash off the fake blood, and join the playwrights and directors for drinks or dinner.<\/p>\n

If, like me, you\u2019ve been wondering about why things are the way they are in today\u2019s world, and how this relates, this is my explanation: For the actors, writers and directors who create real world narratives, the play is you. And you are not real.<\/p>\n

Actors and Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much has been made of the jarring dissonance between the heroic stand of the president and the people of Ukraine and the facile signaling of the Social Justice crowd. Feel free to pick your favorite exemplar, from the merely stupid\u00a0banning of Russian cats\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0renaming of White Russian\u00a0<\/a>cocktails to the more sinister\u00a0cancelling of Russian performers,\u00a0<\/a>or the horrific\u00a0threats and vandalism to places serving Russian food.\u00a0<\/a>There\u2019s no shortage of content here. And, as we\u2019ll get to shortly, that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s policy goals do not map fully to those of the United States (think\u00a0Azov Battalion<\/a>, for starters), and we can and should carefully consider our response with that awareness. But this does not change Ukrainian heroism. Zelensky wants planes, a no-fly zone, and he would no doubt love NATO boots on the ground. Prudence may dictate we provide him none of these, but it is worth noting that any of us in his circumstances would likely be asking for the same things. Any of us who stayed during the onslaught, that is.<\/p>\n

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