the botched execution of Christa Pike (supposed to happen behind closed doors, but now disturbingly public)
and the even more disturbing upcoming public execution of Nidal Hasan
both bring to mind Foucault’s historical analysis of such spectacles medium.com/@hfwnbq/disc...
![We have shown earlier how in the environment which lies closest to us, the public 'environment' already is ready-to-hand and is also a matter of concern [mitbesorgt].
*In utilizing public means of transport and in making use of information services such as the newspaper, every Other is like the next. This Being-with-one-another dissolves one’s own Dasein completely into the kind of Being of 'the Others', in such a way, indeed, that the Others, as distinguishable and explicit, vanish more and more. In this
inconspicuousness and unascertainability, the real dictatorship of the they is unfolded.*
We take and enjoy ourselves as they [man] take pleasure; we read, see, and judge about literature and art as they see and judge; likewise we shrink back from the 'great mass' as they shrink back; we find 'shocking' what they find shocking. The "they", which is nothing definite, and which all are, though not as the sum, prescribes the kind of Being of everydayness.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreightgdi7f5cdftxfozhliug5jlkbr6sicqj75y5br3jg3snqi65ya)
![It was shown earlier [p. 71] how, already in each closest circum-world, the public "environment" is at hand and is getting taken care of too.
*In making use of a public means of transportation, in utilizing an information service (newspaper), each of the others is like the next. Such being-with-one-another completely dissolves one's own being-there into the manner in which "others" are, so that others disappear all the more in regard to their differentiation and specificity. Within this incon-spicuousness and indeterminableness, the [impersonal] *one* unfolds its effective dictatorship.*
We enjoy ourselves, seek our pleasures, the way *one* enjoys; we read, see, and judge literature and art the way *one* sees and judges; but then we also pull ourselves away from "the masses” the way *one* pulls oneself away; we find "shocking" what *one* finds shocking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreihhvhdhkxqrwrl3myq6zq7u4kdaya2rhmdc3drxahnpzgps4mlgjy)
![[against a map of the US that’s reddest in the northeast and bluest in the center]
Your Dialect Map
You talk most like someone from Massachusetts - about 52% of your answers match a typical resident.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreibyatdqiajrysd67iirtll2dg43kzegeyxujlfxzwje6i2eyld664)
![[NYTimes headline]
A Stunning Loss in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Left
Francesca Hong's defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
Listen • 9:13 min
Share full article](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreifl7shb5rc4x2cdquvgj7sfl2ckpnetmoy5kb2xm5jw5ium7pg7qe)
![[picture of an aged Luke Skywalker in the background]
I THINK IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT STAR WARS FANS WHO
HATE MARK HAMILL
BECAUSE HE HATES DONALD TRUMP
DIDN’T FULLY
GRASP THE OVERALL
MESSAGE OF STAR WARS.
JON HOPPER
@JHOPP217](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreibxjdjkezb5jd6zm26i2b4u2glio4ki7aylfrfpsuaontbouo2xcm)
![travelingnurselex
F**k any and all of you criticizing Dr. Fauci.
I watched 300+ Americans die. Got called a liar, a murderer, a crisis actor, mocked by my own family. Nearly killed myself in the fallout. Trump withheld PPE from me and my team because he didn't like our governor. Called the coroner and families after every loss. I developed PTSD so bad I couldn't smell fresh plastic because it smelt like body bags. And I still have $50k in student loans.
F*ck ANY of you criticizing Dr. Fauci.
[picture of a nurse in scrubs wearing a mask, and picture of her face]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreiaxhrxxtn6luz22iasxyrdpugindvukxsunwat6rcm4jqwsoagihq)
![Brandon Gill • is at White House. •
The American Dream belongs to Americans. It does not belong to the world.
[a picture of a white man smiling while holding a child in his arms on the front lawn of the White House, with several white people in the background
with the caption “The American dream belongs to Americans.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt5tse7ef7l4aszaehypp5v7/bafkreignowivohllrakanfby67mgbrhko7zewx6mlv3o4xq2w565yu6ule)
