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White Lotus as Cathartic Fiction
The economic angst experienced by the patriarch of the Ratliff family functioned as a direct analogue to the financial regret so many of us were living out from the wealth we faded by not adapting to market realities in time.
Packaged regret, scripted and televised, to help us metabolise individual perceived failure. A product of the media–finance nexus, this time not as a deceptive manoeuvre, but as a soothing balm. To hold you through your lived experience, and let you suffer by proxy. To watch someone spiral harder, fall faster, lose more.
Broadcasted to coincide perfectly with the bear market's drag, White Lotus timed itself to reality: the slow unwinding of inflated illusions, the return of gravity.
The psychological experience of IRL collective comedown disguised as prestige TV.
Simulacrum confirmed.
The simulation persists, not as lies, but as mirrors—until the singularity collapses the boundary between real and represented. 1 reply
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