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In Gothic High-Tech, you’re Steve Jobs. You’ve built an iPhone which is a brilliant technical innovation, but you also had to sneak off to Tennessee to get a liver transplant because you’re dying of something secret and horrible.
And you’re a captain of American industry. You’re not some General Motors kinda guy. On the contrary, you’re a guy who’s got both hands on the steering wheel of a functional car.
But you’re still Gothic High-Tech because death is waiting. And not a kindly death either, but a sinister, creeping, tainted wells of Silicon Valley kind of Superfund thing that steals upon you month by month, and that you have to hide from the public and from the bloggers and from the shareholders.
And you just grit your teeth and pull out the next one. A heroic story, but very Gothic. Something that belongs in an eighteenth century horror novel. Kind of the “man in the castle” figure.
Or from a political aspect. The ultimate Gothic High-Tech figure: Nicolas Sarkozy. You’re Nicolas Sarkozy, you’re brilliant, you’re poly-ethnic, you have no ideology. You don’t care about any particular line, political line, and you have no alternative. You sucked all the air out of the political room, it’s just all about you.
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There’s very little you can do about Sarkozy because there’s no way to debate him. If you debate him, you just make him stronger. If you ignore him he simply steals your clothes. So the only thing you can do is wait and hope that he changes his mind. And he will, because he will cheerfully campaign against himself.
He will reboot. In six months or eight months, it’s like “Oh, you didn’t like my gangster bling-bling Sarkozy, well how about my top end literary guy Sarkozy? You didn’t like wife number one, wife number two, how about the new one who’s the cool folk singer?”
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These are Gothic High-Tech figures, people who position themselves in the narrative rather than building any permanent infrastructure. That’s what you’ve been telling each other to do all day. That’s why you love these guys. They’re positioning themselves in the narrative rather than building any permanent infrastructure. They’re cheerleaders, they’re not leaders. They’re cheerleaders.
And if the narrative happens to be poverty, floods, air-crashes, drug addiction, infidelity, whatever, they’re going to be good to go.
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The flip-side of Gothic High-Tech is downmarket, and it’s called “Favela Chic.” Favela Chic.
What is Favela Chic? Favela Chic is when you have lost everything material, everything you built and everything you had, but you’re still wired to the gills! And really big on Facebook. That’s Favela Chic.
You lost everything, you have no money, you have no career, you have no health insurance, you’re not even sure where you live, you don’t have children, and you have no steady relationship or any set of dependable friends. And it’s hot. It’s a really cool place to be.

Malkina_ posted:

This is art.

gradenko_2000 posted:

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is it just me or is whoever behind these ads applying this weird color filter that's producing this effect

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The Archaic posted:

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GalacticAcid posted:

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Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1345147579290542080?s=20

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Communist Thoughts posted:

The dems do Amerikkkan Gothic but the chuds do... Whatever this is

IffyNewtz posted:

Sorry to post this again but I'm crack-pinging here

I think this is my favourite future Pulitzer nomination because it so beautifully captures the pure emotion of someone in full raging Q mode without the need for any of the associated flags, symbols or signature clothing. The subtle implication that the damage to the glass is from him smashing his head into it or something, is just the icing on the cake lol.
This is without even discussing the abject terror in the eyes of the cop on the other side lol
What a great photo

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General Dog posted:

Oklahoma City

Feldegast42 posted:

i say swears online posted: