Overdosing on Symbolism

On reorienting the politics of reform towards the substantive

Ben Burgis
Arc Digital
Published in
10 min readJun 25, 2020

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Mark Antony statue in Vienna, Austria. (Gerhard Trumler/Imagno/Getty)

A friend recently sent me some screenshots from his neighborhood Facebook group. Everyone there was outraged that the local beer place hadn’t issued any sort of statement condemning police violence and expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

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Ben Burgis
Arc Digital

Ben Burgis is a philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the host of the Give Them An Argument podcast and YouTube channel.