“We’ve always been at the center of the theft.” - Andrew Salkey Six months into the catastrophe of my grandmother's death, her car was broken into three times. The last time they took her notebooks and my favorite shoes. Before…
Taylor Swift is not copying Beyoncé. She’s mocking Beyoncé. This difference assumes a level of intent that brings forth deliberate malice and cultural disruption.
Moreover, humans are wired for stories about individuals, not vast impersonal statistics. Consequently, the stories we see will always frame our reality more than impersonal statistics, even when we believe the truth statistics reveal.
