🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Blasted Stage: Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning Theatre

How many times does a clown have to yell fire in the theater before the crowd stops laughing?

This Field Note steps into the uneasy overlap of philosophy, politics, and performance — from Kierkegaard’s parable of the clown, to Gavin Newsom’s warning in Sacramento, to Donald Trump’s burning theatre of ambition.

It’s about the danger of laughing while the fire spreads — and the need to take warning seriously before democracy itself goes up in flames.

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