AFAIK, the Portland demonstrations didn't have a leader hawking merch with any leader's face and name on it. That's Trumpism. Trump is hawking cheap perfume, gold sneakers, autographed Bibles, fantasy hero cards with his name and image on them, crypto coins -- just to name a few. I know of nothing like that coming from those who protested in Portland.
You're too blinded by Trumpism to see how wrong you are.
This explains MAGA to a tee:
The saturation of our culture with Trump/MAGA imagery can't help but impart a certain glamour on symbols. So it's easy to forget that MAGA is a movement of the subpar, and the semi-educated. A mob of mediocrity that is forcing into exile, the talented, and the skilled among the non-white Christian, and legal immigrants and asylum seekers. When the narrow imagination of the TRUMP/MAGA mob turns to creating a mystification for itself, to provide "Transcendent Purpose" for the desire to cleanse the country of non-white, foreign peoples, gays, and trans, what it makes will be a monstrous kitsch. A self-satisfying Ego trip of bad art and recycled symbolism.
It seems obvious to me that it was foretelling not only Trumpism/MAGA, but all the other violent religious and civil cults that have plagued humankind for centuries.
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A key 'feature' of the ethics of kitsch and the true meaning of the holocaust.
... very mediocre people indulging a cheap desire to humiliate and kill, covered over with a kitsch fantasy of meaning.
...like a Portland OR Antifa demonstration.
Hmm, could Erasmus been foretelling the coming of Trump and MAGA?
No. EXACTLY like the Trump cultists.
AFAIK, the Portland demonstrations didn't have a leader hawking merch with any leader's face and name on it. That's Trumpism. Trump is hawking cheap perfume, gold sneakers, autographed Bibles, fantasy hero cards with his name and image on them, crypto coins -- just to name a few. I know of nothing like that coming from those who protested in Portland.
You're too blinded by Trumpism to see how wrong you are.
This explains MAGA to a tee:
The saturation of our culture with Trump/MAGA imagery can't help but impart a certain glamour on symbols. So it's easy to forget that MAGA is a movement of the subpar, and the semi-educated. A mob of mediocrity that is forcing into exile, the talented, and the skilled among the non-white Christian, and legal immigrants and asylum seekers. When the narrow imagination of the TRUMP/MAGA mob turns to creating a mystification for itself, to provide "Transcendent Purpose" for the desire to cleanse the country of non-white, foreign peoples, gays, and trans, what it makes will be a monstrous kitsch. A self-satisfying Ego trip of bad art and recycled symbolism.
It seems obvious to me that it was foretelling not only Trumpism/MAGA, but all the other violent religious and civil cults that have plagued humankind for centuries.
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