Mario's ONANtiad
The facial stills that Mario lap-dissolves between are of Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner, founding standard-bearer of the seminal new 'Clean U.S. Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owl-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L.– and Hillary R.C.–disillusioned fringes that drew mainstream-media guffaws at their first Convention (held in sterile venue), the seemingly LaRoucheishly marginal party whose first platform's plank had been Let's Shoot Our Wastes Into Space, [n.150] […]
Context
Interdependence Day at E.T.A., everyone watching Mario's puppet film about how the world got this way. Politics goes annular: bend the left-right spectrum far enough and the two ends fuse — an "annular agnation" — and the ring-party's founding plank is, of course, waste ejection. The political origin story of the Concavity, told as a ring.