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Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more accessible, shorter, free, and less threatening, commandeers attention. Writing in an amusement park that has been expended across the entire city, the entire country, the earth, the galaxy, the universe (as we once filled in our schoolbooks). It is no surprise that twenty years – no thirty years – after being dumped/finding an exit from anthropology teaching I should return and think, and thank, ambivalence and uncertainty, supped with milk at the source. Writing that made people nervous becomes a credo. Look out for the assumptions that shape your critique of assumptions – the most powerful ones are expert dissemblers, even to you, especially to you. The structuralist study of myth just might be the parallel moment to the present, where the aesthetics of reading coincides with/succumbs to machine summary…