This hijacking of embodied culture by abstraction and distraction ‘for’ is not new.
In 1605-15 the Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes nailed it with his novel Don Quixote. A moral narrative exploring the power literary fictions could wield upon a vulnerable mind. Also narrating the cruelties inflicted upon an imagination thus seduced by conventional abstract religious ideology with its fanatical believers attempting to impose their worldview as a cure upon Don Quixote, perceived by them, in a social position of abstract power, as an ‘insane sinner’.
The truth behind personal motives, cruel social predator or confused human prey, is always eventually exposed. Trump’s rule is bound to be full of such epiphanies.
Mass mediated celebrity for sales is
a poisonous and tragic abuse of power.
This hijacking of embodied culture by abstraction and distraction ‘for’ is not new.
In 1605-15 the Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes nailed it with his novel Don Quixote. A moral narrative exploring the power literary fictions could wield upon a vulnerable mind. Also narrating the cruelties inflicted upon an imagination thus seduced by conventional abstract religious ideology with its fanatical believers attempting to impose their worldview as a cure upon Don Quixote, perceived by them, in a social position of abstract power, as an ‘insane sinner’.
The truth behind personal motives, cruel social predator or confused human prey, is always eventually exposed. Trump’s rule is bound to be full of such epiphanies.