After the Minnesota killings, what is your role and how can you help? | Vox

The dark genius of this setup is that most people don’t realize that the prerogative state is active until it’s too late. They only wake up when the knock comes on their very own door — or when the door is forcefully broken down.

A mention of the The Dual State. Seems pretty popular these days. I wonder why that is.

Another quote from the article that speaks to me right now:

Everything is not normal. And so, I would argue, the first obligation we all have is an epistemic one: It’s to know what kind of reality we are actually inhabiting. All other obligations will then flow from that knowledge. Because once we discern that we are living in a dual state, it becomes obvious that compliance won’t save us, and that some kind of action is called for.