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We don’t live in a post-truth society so much as a post-romantic society. This is far more more dangerous. Post-truthiness can be mitigated technologically. But a deficit of romanticism cannot be solved until imagination returns to public spaces from where it’s been driven out
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Reactionary aestheticsand pastoralism != romanticism. I suppose I need a more precise term for forward looking, frontier seeking romanticism
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Yeah, romanticism is somewhat of a muddy term. I primarily associate it with Sturm and Drang. I think both pastoral and frontier subplots came later. Primary association of romanticism for me is emotional subjectivity over logical objectivity.
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Not necessarily nostalgic, is my point. You can accord primacy to emotion/subjectivity in other ways. Impressionism onwards, all art has that quality to some extent whether or not it is nostalgic. I would argue Rick and Morty is kinda nihilism+Sturm und Drang but not nostalgic.