I read "The Captive Mind" in 2023 and found it frighteningly apropos.
I'm a lifelong liberal, but I am increasingly appalled by the extreme ILliberality of my tribe. I've been ringing alarm bells about it for years.
Such people are, in fact, not liberal at all. They don't believe in classic liberal values; they believe in censorship and public shaming. They are smug, sanctimonious, condescending, and intolerant. They are as bad as the MAGA crowd. Two sides of the same coin.
As someone who 'drank the koolaid" and played around (to go easy myself) with shrill, scolding, so-called "didactic" art in the 80s, I see now how easy it was to critically undermine and cast that cloak of shunning over others than to dig deep for actual insight. In retrospect, I see how insecure I was, and fearful. I doubt I make better art now, but it's certainly messier.
I read "The Captive Mind" in 2023 and found it frighteningly apropos.
I'm a lifelong liberal, but I am increasingly appalled by the extreme ILliberality of my tribe. I've been ringing alarm bells about it for years.
Such people are, in fact, not liberal at all. They don't believe in classic liberal values; they believe in censorship and public shaming. They are smug, sanctimonious, condescending, and intolerant. They are as bad as the MAGA crowd. Two sides of the same coin.
As someone who 'drank the koolaid" and played around (to go easy myself) with shrill, scolding, so-called "didactic" art in the 80s, I see now how easy it was to critically undermine and cast that cloak of shunning over others than to dig deep for actual insight. In retrospect, I see how insecure I was, and fearful. I doubt I make better art now, but it's certainly messier.