The Political Utility of Guilt, The Political Impotence of Shame
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Sometimes, feeling bad is good!
I think one of the most underrated words in discussion of contemporary politics and culture is smarmy. The self-satisfying smirks of Saturday Night Live Liberalism, the condescension of endless Instagram Infographics telling you the last Instagram Infographic you posted is actually un-woke, the Oberlin-Graduate-esque tone of each Twitter thread justifying the Radical Queer Possibilities of Buying From Shein. In the aesthetic of smarm, nothing matters more than the circularity of discourse. Every political (or personal) argument is dissected for not accounting for every possible nuance or…
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