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The Impossible Dream

Tangled up in deja vu

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Anthony Caplan
Jun 07, 2025
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I have a problem with the heroic. To me the Arthurian ideal seems to have been coopted by late stage capitalism to the point where it now means success at any cost and a go-big-or-go-home mentality that I see afflicting us at all turns.

My purpose here is to foster an understanding and a cultivation of the prosaic and merely organic it terms of theme and…

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