Dale Beran
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“Arendt described how, in the 1930s, groups of dispossessed people from the lower, middle, and upper classes all began to aspire to the cruel-minded values of a certain type of businessman who, like Trump today, was “flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal.”11”
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
“Gamergate was a “consumer revolt” agitating for a fundamental right to be deceived by corporations in the ways that most pleased them. And Trump, too, as the prince of puffery, was an invocation of the same right—to choose the liar, the fantasy, the troll.”
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
“When the intricately duplicative art of mass media nests in the soul like a cuckoo, replacing real experience with simulation, it is not so much a flaw as a feature. The manufactured impostor not only thrives on what once fed the real need, but attempts to murder its rivals by extinguishing desires for genuine experience.”
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
― It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
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