Posted by Marty Phillips on February 15, 2022
In the 1967 television series The Prisoner, the titular character retires from being a British super spy and soon after is drugged, kidnapped, and deposited in a prison camp. In this place called “The Village” he is subjected to a series of sociological and psychological experiments, ranging from purely sadistic to utterly bizarre.
Like the prisoner in the show, we have been provided a version of political action which is abstracted from the mechanisms of power, so that our participation in the processes of traditional politics is no longer real. We, in America especially, are participating in simulated politics.
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