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L.P. Koch's avatar

Excellent and on point. This whole thing is so psychologically crushing because it is almost impossible to defend oneself against it rationally. Despite it being so blatantly obvious that it is wrong and demented. But as you say, this has to do with deep intuition, heritage and archetypes, the very thing that grounds our reality as descendants of a unique culture. Yet as with so many things that touch the fabric of reality, when pressed, words are hard to come by. Some things are just not directly accessible to the categorizing, defining, closure-seeking mind.

All the more important that those who know how to do it try, like you did here. You also found the right vibe, and I think people are in dire need of that.

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John Carter's avatar

I expect this will only become more outrageous, eg movie back-catalogues being blacked with AI in order to ensure there is no escape to be found in old cinema. Ultimately the only thing to do is to generate culture whose content is so toxic that it defies cooptation, as the regime would discredit itself by attempting to co-opt it according to the regime's own logic. Explicitly rather than implicitly European.

Yet this seems cold comfort ... this vandalism is a form of sacrilege, in many ways worse than tearing down idols and temples. Cultures have had their songs banned before, but to have them coopted and perverted in this fashion seems an especially vicious sadism.

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