"Yet trivia and profundity mingle constantly but don’t “naturally” blend, because the activity they jointly provoke is adversarial and mediated by valuation; but a trivial emulsion can be induced to form by use of apt detergent, e.g. “humour” as you put it, thereby further reducing value to fetish. I for my own part have a positive addiction to the meanest trash and to unmitigated urban pollution; but uncontrolled, self-replicating triviality is genteel and necrotic, a true language-cancer and well able to invade across the mind / brain barrier."
Do we think this is referring to the profound being mimed by the trivial? Or the profound being inadequately expressed and thus coming off as trivial? (edit: or the profound being trivially appropriated for motives other than expressing the profound?)
I think the mediation of valuation would figure into it. Because the scale of value most generally goes from trivial to profound, no?
The "detergent" point is interesting. Having looked up detergent and got "cleaning agent" from Merriam-Webster, I'm reminded of the process of pasteurization, a process which can seen as devaluing something by cleaning it. So we're left with a strange paradox, which is that the profound is devalued and cleansed into triviality, say by capitalism, and what we're left with are stripped-down naked fetish-cores that feel dirty in their own right... despite having been the product of pasteurization?