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Is Trump a Symptom or a Cause?

Paulina Rau

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Emile Durkheim might be right with his concept of Anomie. You may be familiar. It has popped up in my thoughts over the past few years in a way that I wish it hadn't. Sometimes, you just can’t not-see.

By Anomie, he meant that society falls apart when individuals lose faith in the glue that used to keep them together. When society relies on institutions and systems, vocabulary and cultural truisms, fragility…

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Paulina Rau

I am a writer, interested in people, ideas and language.