When All of This Is Over: On the Narrative of Protest and Progress

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When All of This Is Over: On the Narrative of Protest and Progress
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'I wonder if part of the problem with reaching, or even visualizing, an end is that over and over we're told that we've reached the happy conclusion when really we're being held in place.'

One of the promises of the internet is that if you keep clicking, you'll see everything. And though I know, we all know, that's a lie, there are enough small tidbits of closure to keep us scrolling, clicking, reacting, and scrolling again. The celebrity scandal that bubbles up into a dramatic arc, climaxing with a public apology, for instance, has a neat enough structure that it feels satisfying, like a movie.

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