Maybe this also explains the apocalyptic, end-of-days ethos of religious fundamentalists, survivalists, preppers, civil war/boogaloo and other nihilist themes so closely associated with contemporary Conservatism. It may also explain the popularity of Trumpist values throughout the Western World. The world is in a state of fugue, changing socially and technologically faster than the collective culture can adapt to it.

“It’s almost cliched to say, but this isn’t a zone where truth of any kind matters. Being in the “War Room” is all about “building and driving narrative,” a world of endless spin, mainlined MAGA like uncut cocaine: exhilarating to the point of exhaustion.

“We’re crushing this illegitimate regime in the crib,” Bannon says.

Who knows if it’s true or not — if the “narrative” that the podcast has “built and driven” really is suffocating the Biden “regime.”

Instead, what you’re left with is the image that he and those around him want to create, as described in the most recent episode that I listened to, on Dec. 16: “chaos.” In this case, it’s the chaos brought on by Omicron and, in Bannon’s stated view, the botching of the federal response.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/steve-bannon-war-room-pandemic-two-years-chaos