12 January
12 January · 19:45 UTC
Everything is a Hollywood movie in the American psyche, and this is also another key characteristic of kidult culture. Most views on AI for example are little more than feels from James Cameron’s Terminator movies. This fascism guff in the US. What caused the European fascism everybody is so desperate to say is happening in America today was entire populations living a combined life of desperate, abject poverty after WW1, coupled to the humiliation of the truce at Versailles. Neither of these preconditions are present in the US in even a hint of a way. The US is a plutocracy with many elite (mostly corporate) rivals now gunning for control. American political culture has always been just a B-grade Western. Everything is a gun fight at the O.K. Corral.
