Goddamn @godflesh are you just peeling off this level of writing without even breaking a sweat? It all echoes a certain post-Marxist line of thought that saw it's peak in the early 1990s, but one thing your post does remind me of is that these preWWII cats like Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno and Gramsci were operating at an intellectual level we can hardly touch today. Compared to the Moderns, we are like degraded apes trying to build fire. We might have Google and Steemit, but we are lost when it comes to analogy. I'll have to ruminate on your text for a few weeks but by then my upvote will be worthless.