> Why are aesthetics in media and elsewhere converging towards a homogeneous blob of everywhere-consistent, but meanwhile politics has exploding into a kind of anything-goes mess where there is consensus on nothing
This seems contradictory to me:
1. Liberal politics is all aesthetics. This is why people claim proudly to be moderate regardless of what two political stances they're alleging to moderate between. If you look at actual policy differences between the two parties there's mostly just wedge issues.
2. Our perception of politics is straightforwardly dictated by newsrooms.
In fact, the retreat from consensus to internal peace displayed in this post seems consistent with the liberal (by which I mean both parties) defense of individualism over collective/social responsibility.
Mostly I find your comment incoherent, but I can at least clarify that I'm not talking about the news media. Before meandering around economics and tech, the article opens by discussing the trend towards homogeneity in everything from painting, to cinema, to standards of physical beauty.
This seems contradictory to me:
1. Liberal politics is all aesthetics. This is why people claim proudly to be moderate regardless of what two political stances they're alleging to moderate between. If you look at actual policy differences between the two parties there's mostly just wedge issues. 2. Our perception of politics is straightforwardly dictated by newsrooms.
In fact, the retreat from consensus to internal peace displayed in this post seems consistent with the liberal (by which I mean both parties) defense of individualism over collective/social responsibility.