• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      America is increasingly an ignorant country IMO. Probably because half of our politicians are actively trying to dismantle public education.

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      3 months ago

      The exasperating part is that the aesthetics of a hellscape running under the thumb of these radically right wing creeps and weirdoes will some of the very worst…

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        3 months ago

        Yes, I’m partially referring to the dichotomy Kierkegaard lays out in Either/Or between an aesthetic life and an ethical one. It’s clear to me that we discarded the possibility of ethics a few decades ago.

        But then I’m also referring to what you’re talking about and I totally agree that the fascist aesthetics are terrible as well.

        However, they’re also increasingly popular for some reason…cars that look like they’ll be used exclusively for transport to a black site, hideous people deforming themselves with clownish cosmetic procedures, every iteration of an American flag except the regular one, the fucking cyber truck…there are more examples…fucking ick.