This and "Patriots All" seems to suggest that everything in time turns to kitsch. Kitsch as marker of entropy/the lowest common denominator? There's probably a formula for determining how long it will take (size of tragedy multiplier applied to time = degree of kitsch.) I wonder how long it took for the first Civil War chess sets to appear.
I like this idea: With the increase in entropy comes in increase in sarcasm.
It's really just distance - the further away you are from anything, the less familiar it becomes, thus the more prone to warping.
As for civil war kitsch - have you ever heard the stories of the sales men who traveled to just about every town in America after the war selling those Union or Confederate solider statues? Huge amounts of fleecing.
Ha! I never heard that about the statues. Would be very fitting, though -- the markers of every American town square founded on an element of commerce. I do know this story:
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This and "Patriots All" seems to suggest that everything in time turns to kitsch. Kitsch as marker of entropy/the lowest common denominator? There's probably a formula for determining how long it will take (size of tragedy multiplier applied to time = degree of kitsch.) I wonder how long it took for the first Civil War chess sets to appear.
I like this idea: With the increase in entropy comes in increase in sarcasm.
It's really just distance - the further away you are from anything, the less familiar it becomes, thus the more prone to warping.
As for civil war kitsch - have you ever heard the stories of the sales men who traveled to just about every town in America after the war selling those Union or Confederate solider statues? Huge amounts of fleecing.
Ha! I never heard that about the statues. Would be very fitting, though -- the markers of every American town square founded on an element of commerce. I do know this story:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/whose-father-was-he-part-one/
The tragedy of an unknown soldier found dead with the image of his children in his hands quickly turns to a slush fund and general exploitation.
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