I love you Oliver Craner

luka

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why don't we crowdsource a trip to Mosul for Oliver Craner? we could raise the money easy. it's an ancient and fascinating city
 
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“It was Berlusconi, more than anybody else, who led Italy into the new world of mass media and consumerism. He made the postmodern condition a living reality for millions of Italians. He was a man made for the age of seduction, simulation and hyperreality; if he didn’t exist, Umberto Eco would have had to invent him. His mutable values and understanding of truth and reality were primed to exploit the triumph of relativism, the deconstruction of meaning and the end of ideology. He was an unconscious apostle of the Society of the Spectacle, a concept that was both useful and natural to him and that he sought to build rather than destroy. He safely navigated the corruption scandals that undid the First Republic and went on to play a key role in dismantling the sclerotic structures of the old cultural and political elites of Italy, constructing a new Empire of Images in their place. Like Rupert Murdoch, his values and beliefs were conservative but his instincts and his actions were disruptive and radical. Both men helped to create a new political reality, but in Italy Berlusconi took this a step further by deciding to become its face.”

The point on being a proto trump 🤌🏻
 
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shiels said:
he’s helplessly fascinated with glamour and power and expresses how hard his dick gets in the most elegant, contained prose
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he'll depict these sinister figures with very convincing empathy but he doesn't let their charisma get in the way of his appreciation of irony either. both the palin and berlusconi essays end with their ways of shaping reality spiraling out, leaving them lost in a world they helped usher in, etc.
 
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mvuent said:
he'll depict these sinister figures with very convincing empathy but he doesn't let their charisma get in the way of his appreciation of irony either. both the palin and berlusconi essays end with their ways of shaping reality spiraling out, leaving them lost in a world they helped usher in, etc.
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He posted then deleted another Berlusconi thing where he said he'd ended up in a Jim Carrey / Andy Kaufman situation and begun to feel he was actually becoming "Silvio".
 
craner

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mvuent said:
he'll depict these sinister figures with very convincing empathy but he doesn't let their charisma get in the way of his appreciation of irony either. both the palin and berlusconi essays end with their ways of shaping reality spiraling out, leaving them lost in a world they helped usher in, etc.
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I didn't think of them as a pair but that is quite astute.

The "convincing empathy" partly comes from the thinking that writing an essay about what a bastard Berlusconi was or what a nutcase Palin is would be a bit of a waste of time seeing as that is mostly what is written about them. In both cases, the stories were slightly more interesting and nuanced than that.
 
Mr. Tea

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I didn't think of them as a pair but that is quite astute.

The "convincing empathy" partly comes from the thinking that writing an essay about what a bastard Berlusconi was or what a nutcase Palin is would be a bit of a waste of time seeing as that is mostly what is written about them. In both cases, the stories were slightly more interesting and nuanced than that.
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But only slightly.
 
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