So instead Kant’s dissatisfaction transfers over to ordinary annoyances, like how Julian nags at him for patronizing companies on the BDS list, but will happily use his rich friends’ SodaStreams and eat their Sabra hummus, laundering his consumption. All the little projects he always says he’s working on but never finishes, not just the cheese cave but his Studio Ghibli–themed novelty tarot deck; his graphic novel about the 2008 subprime crisis; three kittens adopted and rehomed. Or how Julian can absolutely never use the word racist to describe any offensive thing his white friends ever do,
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