One of my favorite examples of horseshoe theory (one with a pedigree going back to Adorno's straight-up racist loathing of jazz) is "radical leftists" who have the same cultural opinions as Victorian aristocrats Lotta them commenting on this threadhttps://twitter.com/DavidOBowles/status/1333636964956987393?s=19 …
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If you keep invoking the catchy phrase "late capitalism" as though to imply it's somehow a worse time to be alive than "early capitalism" you're a fake leftist If you go on rants about "mass culture" and "lowest common denominators" you're a fake leftist
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I feel pretty strongly about this and I'm a Shakespeare nerd who's seen far more operas than the national average and speaks multiple languages and all that old school Jeopardy shit Get the fuck over yourself
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I don't even really have strong opinions on what an English curriculum would look like - it's a question I am glad is no longer relevant to my life in any capacity - but all these people getting their underwear in a wad over even floating the possibility of reform are dicks
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My own take on culture is that there always has been and always will be trash - trash food, trash books, trash music - and trash is what makes life worth living Any revolution whose goal is cleaning up the trash and building a more wholesome and virtuous world can eat my dick
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authenticity is bullshit
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I've yet to see a self-proclaimed leftists claiming that multinational corporations are worse than the old feudal nobility…
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The argument that I see well-spread on the Left is that the owners of multinational corporations will, if left to their own devices as wealth concentrates more and more into their hands, become more and more akin to the old landed nobility in their behavior and worlview.
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