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With a wit as sharp as it is quietly devastating, "Minutes of the Last Sensible Meeting" anatomizes a future where institutions grow ever more elaborate as the substance of belonging recedes. For readers this is an elegy for the death of shared memory—and a sly celebration of the ordinary lives that slip through the cracks. In 2026, the American experiment fractures along ancient seams. Disillusioned with the churn of progress and backlash, the nation surrenders to managed dissonance. In this new epoch—the Rebranding Period—history is not rewritten but endlessly renamed, its traumas lacquered with euphemism and reissued as modules for mandatory collective healing. An historian, sifting through the ossified files of the Republic of Civic Alignment, traces the phenomenon from its brittle beginnings: the collapse of compromise politics, the rise of the Department of Clarification, the viral spread of apology festivals and microaggression potlucks. The Commission’s listening tours, intended to bridge the national divide, devolve into a theater of managed disappointment, while a shadow industry of professional dissenters monetizes the backlash. Each new initiative is met with a knowing fatigue, each corrective measure countered by the faint but persistent hope that someone, somewhere, still remembers how to build a bench at a bus stop.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With a wit as sharp as it is quietly devastating, "Minutes of the Last Sensible Meeting" anatomizes a future where institutions grow ever more elaborate as the substance of belonging recedes. For readers this is an elegy for the death of shared memory-and a sly celebration of the ordinary lives that slip through the cracks. In 2026, the American experiment fractures along ancient seams. Disillusioned with the churn of progress and backlash, the nation surrenders to managed dissonance. In this new epoch-the Rebranding Period-history is not rewritten but endlessly renamed, its traumas lacquered with euphemism and reissued as modules for mandatory collective healing. An historian, sifting through the ossified files of the Republic of Civic Alignment, traces the phenomenon from its brittle beginnings: the collapse of compromise politics, the rise of the Department of Clarification, the viral spread of apology festivals and microaggression potlucks. The Commission's listening tours, intended to bridge the national divide, devolve into a theater of managed disappointment, while a shadow industry of professional dissenters monetizes the backlash. Each new initiative is met with a knowing fatigue, each corrective measure countered by the faint but persistent hope that someone, somewhere, still remembers how to build a bench at a bus stop. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798186764328
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