"A quick crash course in blackpill accelerationism: the memes are the ideology." (Must see)

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7. The article at the link is really interesting

There are a number of quotable lines. This one caught my attention

“Kitsch is art that engages the emotions and deliberately ignores the intellect, a form of cultural anesthesia”. Kitsch provides a behavioral shortcut around discomfort and ambiguity, rewarding avoidance with a hit of certainty.

and

After tying this thought to consumer capitalism--what we have (as in goods, entertainment, whatever--to what we could have) the article goes to the heart of what we're seeing in group behavior:

Fascism works the same psychological seam: it exploits the gap between what its followers feel— anxiety, rejection, fear of change and difference— and what it promises they could feel: enmeshment, boundary collapse, and the regression to a womb-like belonging…forever. The spectacle of rallies, the flood of symbols, the orchestrated chants: all are kitsch rituals engineered to simultaneously collapse the boundaries of the group inside, and to close the walls against the groups outside. The logic of the loop: stoke anxiety and fear, then relieve it through group spectacle and performance, ad infinitum.

The Logic of the Loop!

And finally,

Donald Trump embodies kitsch with almost comic literalness.


All that gold has purpose, meaning despite it being ugly as hell to rest of us.

Everyman a King. Every King a Sucker.

because,

Kitsch provides the medium, history supplies the symbols, and Trump embodies the spectacle.


Bingo!

A good read and definitely recommended.