even in Glenn Beck’s lachrymose sacrilege at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
Even at that most elementary level, what’s being limned is a world of winners and losers
Oligarchs like Trump, the Koch brothers, the Walton family, Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer, and others don’t subscribe to the social and political meliorism typical of the faceless corporate CEOs of the mid-twentieth century
This is far less a view of Smith’s than of his epigones
the senescence of these globalized cultural paragons, once pulsing with heroic narrative optimism, gave way to a range of wandering, antispectacular, patient vogues
thought it meant sleepy for some reason
