In the Canyons of Despair: Oh-dearism and the nightmare of non-linear politics

This essay connects the author's experience of current affairs to his personal story of grief, attempting a fusing of the autobiographical with the polemical and political. It places personal despair into a global context of political manipulation to which we are all subject, whether its victims are aware of it or not, drawing on the work of documentary film-maker Adam Curtis as its impetus.