The New Global Fascist Bloc: Part II; Culture, Aesthetics, & Political Shifts, b) Art, Social Media & Mass Movements.

Narcissistic tendencies, fed by the growing predilection for social media & the socio-political divisions it fosters are breaking our communities from the top down. Solutions then, must arise from the bottom up…

Don McCullin’s hauntingly beautiful photograph of the ruins of Palmyra.

‘What convinces (the) masses are not facts, not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part. Repetition…is only important because it convinces them of the consistency in time.’

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, (1).

Social media & control of the 21st century masses

In principal works of art have always been reproducible. What was made by the hands of one man could always, in theory, be copied by another. As we advanced technologically, methods of reproduction, then mass reproduction, took art out of the hands of the few and ‘proletarianised’ it.

Statues, goblets, ritualised objects, were now no longer the preserve of the priests or those worshipping in the temples, churches, synagogues, mosques and other…