It's as if by absorbing the language and postures of the oppressed, the diagonalists are attempting to outrun the long shadow of the past. Including the fact that our young countries are built on top of burned villages and graveyards, whose spirits have never been put to rest.

XREF: Connects to settler-colonial history and the idea that founding violence is an ongoing psychic inheritance, echoing themes in decolonial theory and trauma studies.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 839