Saturday, June 11, 2011
Securitized culture
Sort of a half-formed thought.
Securitization took over culture long before it took over business and government. Before there was Goldman, there were Dada and Atonalism.
Picasso and Kandinsky and Pollock invented the CDO. Take many bits of reality, chop them up and mix them together so you can't tell what's what, and sell it for millions. If the sucker tries to guess what's in the image, sneer at him and call him a philistine, tell him that smart buyers know the infinite value of the art.
Around the same time, von Harnack securitized religion, Gödel securitized math, and Schrödinger** securitized physics. Break up the original coherent whole into unrelatable abstract bits of confetti, toss them in the air, let them fall in any random pattern, and declare this vomit to be The Real Deal. Sneer at anyone who tries to maintain the older coherency. Call them Skeptics, Deniers, Neanderthals, and Christians.
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** Schrödinger's reality-confetti is the best of all, because it doesn't even exist until the right sort of person looks at it. It has no determinate value until a Certified Jew Physicist observes it with a Certified Non-existent Theoretical Microscope, which itself can't be seen by Skeptics and Christians. ¶ 4:21 AM
Securitization took over culture long before it took over business and government. Before there was Goldman, there were Dada and Atonalism.
Picasso and Kandinsky and Pollock invented the CDO. Take many bits of reality, chop them up and mix them together so you can't tell what's what, and sell it for millions. If the sucker tries to guess what's in the image, sneer at him and call him a philistine, tell him that smart buyers know the infinite value of the art.
Around the same time, von Harnack securitized religion, Gödel securitized math, and Schrödinger** securitized physics. Break up the original coherent whole into unrelatable abstract bits of confetti, toss them in the air, let them fall in any random pattern, and declare this vomit to be The Real Deal. Sneer at anyone who tries to maintain the older coherency. Call them Skeptics, Deniers, Neanderthals, and Christians.
= = = = =
** Schrödinger's reality-confetti is the best of all, because it doesn't even exist until the right sort of person looks at it. It has no determinate value until a Certified Jew Physicist observes it with a Certified Non-existent Theoretical Microscope, which itself can't be seen by Skeptics and Christians. ¶ 4:21 AM
