Potential Sites of Resistance to the Second Trump Administration
Some years ago, I heard an interview with Anne Washburn, who wrote the book for Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, in which actors in a post-apocalyptic world retain few cultural artifacts of the pre-apocalyptic world but manage to reconstruct and perform an episode of The Simpsons. Over time, the play within the play evolves and moves further and further away from the original Simpsons episode. I didn't get to see Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play , but I recall from the interview that Washburn said, perhaps reciting a line one of her character speaks in the play, something like this: The one good thing about living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape is you don't need to worry that there could be an apocalypse . It's a great and memorable line, but it isn't really true. Bad as things are, they can always get worse. Bears can invade the cave in which you're living. You can run out of salvaged fuel for your generators. Raiders from the neighboring valley can attack you. So