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  "content_md": "Had the notion of carnival time top of mind whilst viewing the eclipse today. Easy to grok how such a moment sits outside of normal experience.\n\n> Bakhtin’s crucial insight is that carnival did not threaten the official order from the outside. It maintained it from within. Carnival was how a society handled what could not be absorbed by decorum, hierarchy, or doctrine. It staged excess—bodily, linguistic, social—so that excess did not accumulate silently until it ruptured the system.\n\n[Carnival Time, Hardness, and the Machines That Process Excess ↗](https://open.substack.com/pub/summerlightning/p/carnival-time-hardness-and-the-machines?r=233ko)",
  "content_html": "<p>Had the notion of carnival time top of mind whilst viewing the eclipse today. Easy to grok how such a moment sits outside of normal experience.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Bakhtin’s crucial insight is that carnival did not threaten the official order from the outside. It maintained it from within. Carnival was how a society handled what could not be absorbed by decorum, hierarchy, or doctrine. It staged excess—bodily, linguistic, social—so that excess did not accumulate silently until it ruptured the system.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/summerlightning/p/carnival-time-hardness-and-the-machines?r=233ko\">Carnival Time, Hardness, and the Machines That Process Excess ↗</a></p>",
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