The Reduction of Complex Politics to Pure Aesthetics

i think just capitalism is just a given, you know? I it's, it's such a given that it's not, you don't even need to talk about it, some version of capitalism. It again, it's its, yes, even as it rejects neo liberalism, it is fundamentally neo liberal because neo liberalism contains that just sort of acceptance of capitalism as an eternal given. And what they have, instead of of ano r politics, they just have this endless cultural politics. So much, so much politics taking place on line is reduced to meams. i mean, what is that kind of reactionary culture if it isn't the total reduction of complex politics to just pure aesthetics

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