ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
we read this academic paper a while back which mentioned in passing that it's apparently well-known (if you're in the right field of study...) that fascists and authoritarians always have a very backwards-looking idea of culture, they define their aesthetics in ways which only allow nostalgia and never new ideas, predictably and repeatedly
and once we had that idea, we've started seeing it everywhere ><