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Cute Authoritarianism – Areo
“As Theodore Adorno, Clement Greenberg and Milan Kundera have argued, in dictatorships, kitsch is more than just an aesthetic: it is essential to the exercise of totalitarian power, which relies on the superposition of an entirely false world upon the real. As Kundera says, “Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit.” It is a lie about a perfect, cute world which you are forced to treat as true—and that itself quickly becomes a daily torture. Smile and say that you are happy ten times—or we will shoot you,” argues Ewan Morrison for Areo Magazine.
Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military propaganda,…View Post
