Re: <nettime> I farted

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Referring to events 30-40 years ago as reliable determinant of today's 
consequences is ... not reliable. It's unlikely to repeat, even as a farce.

What bothers me is something else - that stooping to scatological level 
by an (nominally) elite art manager was generally cause for celebration 
in the left echo chamber. From 'cute' to 'we showed them'. This means 
that not only the 'it was Russia' cult got unglued from (this) reality, 
but they took with them almost everyone else that ever associated with 
them (thanks to the thorough cooptation Democrats  performed in the last 
few decades), onto the journey where the only rule is Kool Aid.

This is not limited to salaried east coast intelligentsia - a speaker at 
elite crypto conference had to be stopped when referred to POTUS in 
derogatory terms. It's almost fucking everyone who ever voted for 
Democrats in the past few decades, and their brother.

Maybe it's due to my lack of graduate humanities education, but I don't 
see anything remotely cute in this act. Offering POTUS a toilet bowl 
instead of requested painting should not even be a matter of discussion. 
It should be something that's just NOT DONE. Not because someone likes 
or hates POTUS (both of which are serious signs of terminal 
de-politicization), but because with this you abdicate the only argument 
and the only platform you have. Once to start to oink you will be 
treated as a swine.

This is the real tragedy of the american left: they cannot break 
shackles Democrats installed on them, at this point completely 
internalized. How long before they drink the Kool Aid, so the history 
can move on? It's stuck.


> I would gain some small (and somewhat smug) comfort in knowing that the
> methane molecules that were once in my colon are now in the nose of his
> royal P...
>
> Ted is absolutely correct on the level of hostility that was directed at
> the entire cultural community following the Robert Mapplethorpe incident
> (a touring show that landed at the National Portrait Gallery in DC) --
> where the ruling right-wing pederasts were apoplectic (after being
> secretly titillated by the horse-whip-stuffed-up-the-arse image)...

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