Donald Trumpās diatribe comes just days after Bruce Springsteen told an audience that he believed the current US administration was ācorrupt, incompetent and treasonousā
This is a feature of the right. The Nazis couldnāt create anything artistic, they had to steal from Buddhism Hinduism and the Roman Empire. They lack imagination, which Iām sure is linked to their lack of empathy, and they suppress the counter-culture, which is where art comes from. They fundamentally lack the ability to critically think, which is required for understanding art. The USSR, an authoritarian but (at least in theory) leftist society, produced a LOT of art thatās pretty good.
Itās also the same reason why they think ājokesā are just a way to make fun of someone and they canāt fight back because itās āa jokeā, and they think thatās what jokes are for. They lack the cognitive ability to parse out cleverness and only understand the subversion of expectation part.
If they could think deeply about things, they wouldnāt be conservatives.
This is a feature of the right. The Nazis couldnāt create anything artistic, they had to steal from
BuddhismHinduism and the Roman Empire. They lack imagination, which Iām sure is linked to their lack of empathy, and they suppress the counter-culture, which is where art comes from. They fundamentally lack the ability to critically think, which is required for understanding art. The USSR, an authoritarian but (at least in theory) leftist society, produced a LOT of art thatās pretty good.Itās also the same reason why they think ājokesā are just a way to make fun of someone and they canāt fight back because itās āa jokeā, and they think thatās what jokes are for. They lack the cognitive ability to parse out cleverness and only understand the subversion of expectation part.
If they could think deeply about things, they wouldnāt be conservatives.
Oh youāre right, sorry, I stand corrected. But you get the idea.
All good. Hereās the context and some neat etymological exploration of that topic.