gloom

The dangerous thing about FUD and disinformation as the basis for politics is not that people stop caring about truth. It’s that they start caring about aesthetics instead.

Outside of math, truth and beauty rarely coincide.

“All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. War and war only can set a goal for mass movements on the largest scale while respecting the traditional property system.”

Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

“All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. War and war only can set a goal for mass movements on the largest scale while respecting the traditional property system.”

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm