What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America’s unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst

IIn 1941, Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist who informed Germany in the period before World War II, wrote an article about Harper about the types of character that is likely to be attracted to Nazism, which is at the forefront.Who does the Nazi go?“Those who have nothing in them tell them what they like and what they do-whether education, happiness, wisdom, or symbol, no matter how old or modern, go to Nazism,” Tomson wrote.

Talia LavinAn American writer, recently gave Thompson’s idea an update on Scheedack with her own article: “Who goes Maga?”

Since then the article has been dropped (I am not sure of the cause), but in that, Lavin re -imagined the original Thompson dinner party, with many original models in the attendance, as it was presented in two paragraphs or brief paragraphs but sympathy for the reason for the presence of each person or “gold”.

Ultimately, the Sayyid I, an academic traveler and a repeated traveler, arrived in France with family funds, Lavin wrote: “Nevertheless, he will never go Maga and will spend his days in exile even if he is cut off from the family’s portfolio … because … he is a true veiled beauty.” He finds in Maga “hate for beautiful and strange things, as in all the things he loves. Power does not carry any attractiveness to him, just beauty.”

Of course, Power often tries to use aesthetics, and its own definition of beauty, to enhance its purposes. The fascists and seltin are strongly aware of the ability of art to spread or oppose ideas. From architecture to gatherings, Hitler and Mousseulini preferred a kind of possession, which is the nature and unification of a hypothesis to arouse the feeling of the imperial eternity. Soviet aesthetics – although it is supposed to be in the future rather than focusing on the glorious past – has declined on the idea of ​​strength and unification to subjugate the individual and raise the state. Of course, all the three authoritarian systems have suppressed art, artists and beauty that was dissident.

Trump, too, has aesthetic. Allow me to announce this self and self Not beautiful. The aesthetic of tramp is the extension – which has already been afflicted with the United States long before the spread of the Maga movement.

Last September, approximately 2000 miles traveled in the United States with a French friend, Guillaume, outer on our way from the capital to New Orleans, in part, in part, in the footsteps of Alexis de Tokville. (“Our last opportunity to monitor democracy in America may be,” I told him.) Through his non -Americans, I saw more ways to the physical manifestations of Hana Arndt’s “atom” in the uproar and countryside of the United States itself.

Like fish in water, I wonder if the Americans are aware of how to swim in it. It extends for hours of the chain stores in the flat -floor buildings. A group of fuel stations, with functional and aesthetic stores that sell rows and coffins of foods and sugary drinks. Big Box chain stores, some of which are Matryoshka dolls, which include other chains inside – rectangular islands of things surrounded by parking lots leading to other small islands of fast food, also surrounded by parking, filled with rows and rows of the most enormous small trucks that can be imagined.

After that, just as it begins to diminish, the entire Shebang begins again, until it wanders in all the possible reciprocation of the series and begins to repeat. Wherever there is a herb, it will be flawless.

Regardless of where you are in America, it is 3.8 square meters, with its 340 million population, the extension has followed the same logic of the leadership hosted by the chains you host – a completely unlimited appearance, which cannot be completely distinguished. Somehow, there is always a traffic movement on these six -land roads, which is an overwhelming line that requires parking lots that leak like cake peaks, and with parking spaces throughout the vast. Everything about the extension is retreating out, such as warm gel that can no longer carry its shape. There is no height except for the height of the signs that announce the chains; These are several floors in the sky, enough to be visible from the highway.

Somewhere along the line, the American dream has been living alone, surrounded by all this, rather than living with other people.

On somewhat encrypted lines, the poet Kitts presented a bond that transcends the subjective nature of what we find individually, an aesthetic fun. “Beauty is the truth, the truth is beauty. That’s all you know on Earth, and everything you need to know,” he wrote. It was barely the only one who interrogated the two at the same time. Plato and Plotinus sought to connect beauty to an unimaginable fact that remained somewhere behind our material reality; Kant also, Beauty mode beyond tasteAs something that is not interested, radiating abroad. In theology, Saint Augustine and Hans Urs von with the gastrics again with the same divine origin, such as the critical ingredients of any humanitarian attempt to understand the horse.

And if this is very internal for you, the British theoretical physicist Tom McLwish argues: “As indicators on the road forward instead of achieving destinations, beautiful experiences and theoretical ideas can be celebrated, their aesthetic attractiveness that you enjoy without shame.”

I would like to add a third vector to the carrier between beauty and truth: art, which in his book in 1934, art as experience, John Dewey is something that is rooted in the daily experience of life rather than something necessarily something to museums. As long as living is authentic. “Experience in the degree where the experiment is increased vitality,” Dewey writes.

There may be an authentic thing to supply suburbs when he is experienced as a spectator and an anthropologist. But like daily life, the extension is fatal, ugly, fake. Either of art, beauty and truth alike. The United States has long bought the idea that freedom is ending. But it wanders through the ground just because it does not exist the land or people on it. In this case, in particular, Al -Wafra did the United States by drawing it in the absence of the experiment. What is surprising that a shattered ideology will be rooted in the material spaces that radiate the ruin of too much?

Looking at the number of artists, photographers, photographers, and architects who were ready to serve thorny political movements, it will be simplified for me to claim that artists are immune in some way. But art is an attempt to capture – and transfer – a right thing about the world, and the human emotional experience of it. When the rational world has adhered to a path leading to destruction, perhaps those devoted to beauty, with what Kitts called “Negative“To realize the truth, we will return to both.