Taking understandable offense at this was a real-life U.S. Army helicopter pilot, who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. … That’s not war.”So, for the record, it was still news when, two weeks ago, the President joked about starting a civil war. Like a poker player raising a bet, in coded language, Kirk dragged race into the conversation with his last breath. We will only note that if such an institution existed, it would be immortalized as a full-scale exhibit in the Spectacle Hall of Fame and/or Infamy. * Here we use the term ‘spectacle’ in the sense employed by Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle: “All that once was directly lived has become mere representation;” “[P]assive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity.” The spectacle prevents individuals from realizing that the society of spectacle is only a moment in history, one that can be overturned through revolution.