Hey Walter, I've been reading you carefully in the past days to figure out an answer to why some of your essays feel like a well-crafted, slow-burning horror story set in "Creepytown America".

I think that you highlight the microphysics of power and cultural oppression in a dimension where it is carefully hidden. It is hidden from the world and from US citizens alike, and there are millions of open secrets supporting this approach. I think you are busting the doors of this secrecy agreement.

When governance models from political science are failing to provide us with a tool to interpret US social realities, it is writing like yours - engaging, story-telling on point - that can help reveal the actual phenomena at work.

Or something like that.

Cheers!