Manifesto Anti- Kitsch

3 - Kitsch and Politika (Politics)

The historical necessity of appearance of Kitsch is intrinsic to modernity and holds the compulsion of artificial aesthetics to escape normativity and anomie, a pleasant escape from stress, monotony and boredom of everyday life.

The Kitsch is therefore Repetition, Imitation, Forgery and Aesthetics of Self-Deception, a form of lie and deception, in which the ideal of beauty is socially distributed to a middle class as another commodity subject to market laws of supply and demand, and duping the classes of poverty range, anesthetized by the aim to reach El Dorado that after all is not accessible to them.

The Kitsch is as synonymous of bad kulture or false art, a draft coarse, cheap, a strongly derogatory crap, usually produced for advertising or easy entertainment, with formal inappropriate qualities to a content or cultural intent, easy financial and spiritual acquisition, assigning it the meaning of true art.

In the modernity of Democracies characterized by a philosophy of wild capitalism (without social or ontological ethics), which strangely means government of the people and not the minority of politicians who have long abandoned the idealism of social justice and the liberation of the (s) Other (s) without material or personnel corruption (active or passive).

So today politicians are active, working today on behalf of personal and / or party clientelism and their dominant economic lobbies that finance them, or media opinion accounting people as percentages of votes in a mere piece of paper.

The common man does not realize that his mental evolution is the spiritual pleasure that is the main charm of its life, reaching obtusely to consider it as an obstacle to prosecution of their material goals

So today, the readers of the democratic age with little time for lengthy written texts, they want easily locatable books, fast reading and light understanding, false conception of beauty, or the unexpected and the new with fast thrills and frightening passages, impressive with rapid and predictable effects , without uncertainty or sense of personal insecurity, which can be displayed and shared between everything and everyone (Mass Man).

Recently Kitsch became a mean to systematize, institutionalize, standardize and achieve the greatest possible number of masses, in which the bad taste of these Modern Times, is an illusion, an ideological manipulation of taste, utilized by business activity to profit from the requirements this new cultural recently agreed class, in which new technologies make possible the cheap production of books, pictures, music, furniture, handicrafts, etc., in sufficient quantities to satisfy the market.

The Kitsch is psychologically and sociologically is the expression of a lifestyle of the bourgeois middle class, with an ascetic relationship, hedonist, aggressive, acquisitive, functionalist or cybernetic with objects, based on the principle that genius is seen as the ability to create works based on a mediocrity that as a good product, must be accessible and visible to all.

So almost everything that is associated to Kult(ure) Art can be processed and recycled, imitated or duplicated, reproduced and Industry standard, finally a tonic and eclectic placebo for compulsive consumer entertainment, as a reaction against the terror of constant change (which increase constant speed generates paranoia and schizophrenia), the perpetual motion of the transformation of reality and the modern sense of spiritual emptiness.

"The only and the rarity today has become an anachronistic concept, leaving an empty space in utopias, as a guiding direction for a better future."  Charly Nobody

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes" 

Carl Gustav Jung (1875- 1961 - Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology)

Next Chapters : 

4 - The "Kitsch -Man" 

5 - The Cult is Kitsch vs. Kitsch is Cult 

6-Culture, Kitsch and Power