Corrosion

In other words, because the other side does it, we can do it.

There are three major psychological weapons that combatants often transfer into culture war: scapegoating, deception, and violent threats.

Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.