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JohnBurke 8 Mar 24
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Most likely, stay away I'm toxic.

Pink hair, green hair, excess of tattoos, ugly piercings, probably started as a statement about rejecting conventions but has evolved for many into a way of signaling a vision of the world where traditional males are seen as predators. Style is just another way of attacking traditional ideas about family in some ways. The goal being to replace the family with the "village" or state.

Just as importantly is the degeneration of aesthetics. You see it in communist brutalized architecture. It stems from a form of cognitive dissonance where beauty is associated with equality. Where a few smudges of paint are considered as beautiful as a Rembrandt. Where diversity or actually the lack of diversity is a higher value than competence. Art like anything else has a natural hierarchy related to competence. Hierarchies are naturally exclusionary. And of course you have the Post Modernists who were communists slightly disguised as philosophers. Post Modernism would eventually produce a form of Marxist thought known as diversity, inclusion and equality.

"Marcuse contends that artists, in order to be authentic and relevant, must be the most alienated members of modern society. Capitalism’s biggest problem is that it makes life too pleasurable, and
the artist and his subject have trouble seeing why it should be resisted. Any decrease in alienation and subsequent suffering represents a reactionary intrusion to be challenged and negated"

[digitalcommons.unl.edu]

It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that Marcuse's idea about art were a form of artistic sadism. A brutalization of the senses inflicted on the viewer.

Most people who have adopted the philosophy would of course be unaware of it's origins and are just victims of the human predilection to copy and embrace "style".

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That will inspire me all right...to run. As fast as I can.

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