🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun

How does a single word — “they” — become a weapon, a fog, a spell?

This is a bonus episode of Season 3 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: I read aloud Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun — a reflection on Macbeth’s witches, borrowed outrage, propaganda’s fog, and the dangers of the phantom enemy. It’s about how language blurs truth and shadow, how tragedy is twisted into division, and how spells can break when we see through them.Image credit: George Cattermole, Scene of Three Witches from Macbeth (1840), Yale Center for British Art — Public Domain.

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