The Political System of Kitsch

All John Ruskin was asking for in his epic treatises on art and culture, was ultimately a world without Kitsch. Instead, we find ourselves surrounded by its conforming deception with a voluntary ignorance, campy in our debt-enslaved society.  The lie we tell ourselves is that we are freely expressing our unique individual qualities, but in reality we are lost and deceived by an endless display of kitsch, the crap we are brainwashed to crave, and that our politics have brainwashed us into accepting.  True talent has been replaced by mass production and profit.  We are a society without any real purpose except the false purpose they taught us at birth – your purpose is to acquire more money, more material possessions, and above all, more power. To what ends I ask?  We have truly become "the middle children of history, without place or purpose."  Today we are consumers content to remain in our vision of peaceful ignorance, and we not only fail to question our purpose, but we refuse to question it. Most by the age of thirty succumb to an increasingly common disease in society known as nihilism. Those rare instances where an individual's intellect finally grasps how absurd our pursuits have become in the face of death and even with the preconceived notion of god... They finall ask themselves "what's the fucking point?" What is our purpose? Why achieve anything? We are consumed by our need to possess bullshit, and we expect praise and power by possessing said bullshit. Our purpose, you ask? It is to consume ourselves until humanity dies in an orgy of industry and commerce, while shouting to the sky's that Adam Smith was right in that our holy union of self-interest would eliminate all classes and the wars fought between them. We are to die consumers…  The real irony is that we will possess nothing at our death.

What happened to dying in legacy?  What about dying with our own purposes? Today all self-expression is limited to the cold tyranny of the marketplace. The market speaks with an undeserved arrogances, incredulous it asks "Creativity? Sorry, no market demand for creativity. You are completely free to pursue your creative rights, but you'll most-likely starve to death." Victory or death? Or is it "conform or die?" I choose victory with a middle finger to servitude.

Capitalism is failing. Not economically, but morally. It is starving humanity into meaningless extinction. We have evolved, and I believe meant to cooperate and collaborate, NOT compete for material possessions. Perhaps animals compete to survive in nature, but humanity has evolved beyond this. We are not animals, we are conscious beings capable of reason. It is the dark side of ethics to consume and consume until there's nothing left.

Oh how I wish to topple the Leviathan, and see it exposed for the ineffective deception that it is. And as for humanity… The sleeper must awaken.