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Bruce's avatar

What you're groping for, I think, is the modern term 'kayfabe' which neatly illustrated what trump's entire schtick as a candidateis: he and his supporters are playing parts in an elaborate communal fantasy...mostly harmeless when it was about professional wrestling, catastrophic when it is applied to the real world Presidency.

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I was going to drop by, put on a few airs, be both hoity toity and high falutin, drop a little Clement Greenberg and go back to the greenhouse where I belong. I was looking for a copy of "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" and I found this wonderful creation .

https://youtu.be/3zozMksqnYk?si=DGcbs9bfa-BSa0Zm

It's the best thing ever. Go spend 5 minutes with this video.

If you google"Avant -Garde etc." several different free PDFs come up. You should read the essay. There's some problems with Greenberg but he writes really well. It's not as good as the cartoon but then I was raised on Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bugs Bunny.

Nice essay Yaz!

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