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Man in The Mirror

by Anand Giridharadas

an ethnography/human socio-cultural portrait

research describing the wide and deep environment that manifested in the strangulation death of homeless

Michael Jackson impersonator in a NYC subway, Jordan Neely, May 1, 2023

DO NOT expect satisfying self-affirmations, "righteous" this vs. that, which are common expressions of a culture of DEHUMANIZATION. Anand Giridharada critically dissects culture to reveal cultural patterns repeated over the ages and ages and ages . . . of Humanity, which are part of what constitutes the inner life of an Authoritarian Age - and - he asks what we should do about its victims on boh/any/all sides. 

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