In “Hamlet,” you have the makings of what the late Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom described in his “Hamlet: Poem Unlimited” (Riverside Books, 2003)  as “the Hamlet complex, of which murderousness forms as large a component as does self-conscious theatricality. Or are the two components fused:  Should we speak of murderous theatricalism?”

But what of us? Should we also speak of murderous theatricalism in an AI-fused Trumpian society that is all about communications and reality TV but lacks communication skill?

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