The K-monologues

“The U.S. is the greatest show on the road...Its most saleable commodity is self-love.” 

---Harold Pinter.

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The stories we tell ourselves, to keep ourselves going, can end up in delusion. The good ol' days, the golden period, unsullied origins, mythical time, the chosen people, the first peoples, the central nation..history and destiny have picked us out from amongst all the others.

But not just the grand narratives in which we find ourselves. The small stories we tell that keep us from understanding ourselves; the fictional lives we lead enhanced by technologies of isolation and commercial dreamworlds, our "if" and "if-only" clauses, the miraculous break from causality. All the lives I could have lived, anyone, but myself.