“They see art as a threat because it questions and deciphers the myths, dogmas, lies and illusions that fascism is built upon.”
Bullshit: it just as easily supports the ‘myths, dogmas, lies and illusions’ that fascism is built on. Panzerlied was a banger of a song and carries just as hard as Bella Ciao, and Hugo Boss’ uniform designs put all the Allied uniforms to shame.
AI is a problem because the capitalists control it, and anyone who ignores that qualifying clause and calls AI ‘unconditionally’ a problem is a fucking idiot, and a useful idiot to fascists. It’s the same thoughtless lack of nuance that ACAB has when it includes police in China. Police are an arm of the state and they are a problem when capitalists control the state. That kind of myopic stupidity had so many western leftists supporting the wrong side in Hong Kong which caused such a high degree of harm that it nearly passed a catstrophic tipping point. And now they’re doing it with AI. They’re making it cultural anathema for a ‘progressive’ to touch what could be one of the most powerful progressive tools that Educators in the West have in their struggles as the fascists take their textbooks away.
That’s true. I have friends who were harmed during the riots in Hong Kong and I’m angry about it.