Baudrillard

"the faster and more comprehensively societies begin to bring reality together into one supposedly coherent picture, the more insecure and unstable it looks and the more fearful societies become." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard "The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? (Yet there is some justice here since the very people who invented them have fallen in.) Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin." (p 263 The Illusion of the End) (freaking hell, Baudrillard..) POTLATCH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch https://www.britannica.com/topic/potlatch "The potlatch was also used as a face-saving device by individuals who had suffered public embarrassment and as a means of competition between rivals in social rank." (Like that boy buying a birthday cake as a present to everyone after peeing in the cupboard.)