Displacement is something we all do: fixing on something small to avoid engaging with something big.
"My putting hole is partly about my own background as a British Indian, and the displacement of something from east to west.
It means one thing when a white billionaire taps into whites' anxieties about cultural and economic displacement, and something else entirely when a black man from Detroit validates their conspiratorial fears about the Affordable Care Act.
Like higher-income communities, some communities typically seen as receiving those displaced from major cities — such as Pittsburg and Antioch — are undergoing their own displacement pressures in something of a ripple effect, as they generally lack tenant protections available elsewhere.
He argued that banning Facebook would just shift any "displacement time" onto something else, which I suppose could be doing the crossword or having another fag break.
Beckett knew something about displacement — the fear, the hope, the cold stink of madness and loss.
But as deliberate exercises in displacement, moral panics illustrate something of the dominant political culture, and this opportunistic trolling is no exception.
"The types of jobs now amenable to displacement by technology is really something we haven't seen before, said David Autor, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Even if better isntitutions provide a cushion against displacement, they note, there's something to be said for the dignity of gainful employment.
There's a flicker of a political critique embedded in Mr. Uklanski's playful intervention and mocking tone, something about the displacement of the American cowboy ideology, though the film finally weighs in as more cynical and detached than passionate and engaged.
