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English aristocrats were characterized by an earned haughtiness, in their own language they viewed themselves as superiors. Cf., Nietzsche on the origins of the words good and bad among aristocracies

Andrew Heinze from "Jews and the American Soul" The Jewish-American intelligentsia “created much of the American lexicon of self in the twentieth century, articulating the human desire for self-expression and acceptance with such concepts as ego-id, superego, rationalization,…

AI image production has taken on a surprisingly American conservative aesthetic. I don't mean it is mere kitsch, but rather an implicit "GBDism" (Giga Based Dad). An active mechanism for preserving basic humaneness in the face of rapid change.

When Adorno said there could be no poetry after Auschwitz, he was obscuring the fact, namely, that Art died with H1tler the man.