The point at the end is so important and weirdly prescient that I was thinking about exploring it in an entirely separate post. What are memes like "brat" and Trump serving McDonald's if not the aestheticization of politics, brought to us as viral algorithmic memes? When we view political content through the same gaze as all other "content," how does that affect us as viewers?
The idea of politics becoming subject to the same “content” mill is fascinating to me. It feels like it helps explain some of the current motivations present in the Tech Bro/Government overlap. Elon isn’t interested in running the government, he’s interested in making “content.”
This is such an interesting point! So worth digging into… I’ve always found that last section of the Benjamin piece mysterious. Quite possibly we are seeing such an aestheticization now
The point at the end is so important and weirdly prescient that I was thinking about exploring it in an entirely separate post. What are memes like "brat" and Trump serving McDonald's if not the aestheticization of politics, brought to us as viral algorithmic memes? When we view political content through the same gaze as all other "content," how does that affect us as viewers?
The idea of politics becoming subject to the same “content” mill is fascinating to me. It feels like it helps explain some of the current motivations present in the Tech Bro/Government overlap. Elon isn’t interested in running the government, he’s interested in making “content.”
This is such an interesting point! So worth digging into… I’ve always found that last section of the Benjamin piece mysterious. Quite possibly we are seeing such an aestheticization now