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RE: An example of someone who supports censorship and opposes civil rights
Your post reminded me of something: Do you know what "kitsch" originally meant? Aesthetically, it was art that appealed to sentiment. Transformed to an ethic, it means motivated by sentiment.
In other words, "kitsch" meant "feelz."
Just to gloomen everyone's day, kitsch came into its own before World War 1. It was replaced by savage cynicism, which then gave way to plain brutality.
All art appeals to emotion. Kitsch is just overwhelmingly smarmy, smug, and cozy.
Some folks like it. Personally I prefer craftsman style or art deco.
All art gives feelz. Kitsch gives particularly sappy feels, like Hello Kitty. Translated into an ethic it'd be Kawaii. Post-modernism is brutality, IMHO.
YMMV.
sounds like memes