Political Theatre and Theatres of War

The mantra every aspiring writer learns to recite is “Show, Don’t Tell.” At least these days, when “telling a story” is something passé, what our grandparents did around the (now banned) fire. Now they’ve all died “of Covid” (sic) and we’re left with the fragmentary data of end-times civilization, self-replicating to amplify distraction and narrative ch…