Today, a fewer words about kitsch, kitsch, which spills out of all mass media receivers, the net or TV.
I guess I don't gotta convince you, as people who are aware of what's going on around us.
What is this kitsch?
As the first category of kitsch in the non-artistic area, apart from art — due to the fact that what is kitsch in art, we all know — in the 1930s he developed 1 of the creators, leaders, the most crucial figures of the alleged Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno.
It was then that the great, crucial philosopher in the 20th century stated that modern societies produce kitsch, supporting kitsch to make false consciousness. False awareness justifying the full functioning of the capitalist system, which Adorno himself was a staunch critic; at which contradictions, but besides horrors, he consistently pointed out throughout his philosophical path.
Political kits
But let's modify a small bit what he said and wrote Theodor Adorno, and decision on to political kitsch. Let us decision on to political kitsch, which may appear in very, very different forms, including mass culture. Recently, possibly any of you have seen the announcement of a fresh movie by a celebrated Polish director, King of Polish kitsch, as any say — Patrick Vega; a movie dedicated to Vladimir Putin In the flesh — which movie is the kitsch over kitsch in mass culture. But we besides hear further statements from very different politicians, including the most crucial figures in our country, in the Polish country, touching on political kitsch and possibly even grotesque. At the same time, you hear the political and information language of kitsch in most comments.
Caricatures
Of course, this kitsch will be primarily associated with the caricatural depiction of certain phenomena and figures objectively existing, objectively playing an crucial geopolitical role, an crucial function of civilization — I mean whether Russia or China, or those alleged Western opponents — presents them in a caricatural way, separated from reality, showing that they are actually incarnations of absolute evil. Evil, which must be fought with all possible methods.
Incarnation of “bad”
This information-political kitsch leads to the fact that, on the 1 hand, it is simply a paradox, we have repeated statements that this axis of evil is omnipotent, omnipotent — and even here, we can influence our lives, even in the form of late protesting farmers, who are accused — if not! — of working with possibly the worst of this axis of evil, Vladimir Putin. And on the another hand, the same political-information or alternatively disinformation kitsch will present to us Russia or China and another countries of the emerging multipolar planet as state structures to the virtues of corrupt, rusted, defiled and actually ridiculous, cabaret.
Where's the consequence?
She's not here. The authors of political-information kitsch about consistency and logic do not care. The point is to empathize the audience with certain emotions, perfect emotions of disgust, dehumanity, hate-based emotions, and frequently envy-based emotions — that is what their message is limited to.
Political-information kitsch makes us live — as Adorno said about artistic kitsch — in a completely virtual reality, in an artificial thought of what the outside planet looks like, regardless of our geopolitical preferences, and how we see the function of these powers regarded as alleged hostile powers.
Suffering is harmful
Because even from the position of those who consider Moscow, Beijing, Tehran or Phenian to be their immediate threat, this political-information kitsch which floods us prevents rational analysis of the possible of the opponent. due to the fact that even if individual believes that he is an opponent, he should besides rationally, logically analyse the weaknesses and strengths of that opponent, alternatively than succumbing to this political-information kitsch.
Let's ignore this political kitsch. Let's completely shut down the sources of this kitsch. Not to be nervous. For example, so as not to feel disgusted erstwhile watching representatives of this kitsch, disgusts to the intellectual but besides ethical level, and frequently besides to the linguistic people who this information-political kitsch in our ears and eyes pour.
Mateusz Piskorski
The text is simply a evidence of the program aired on the channel Against the Censur.