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7/14/2025, 4:34:45 AM
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You don't understand populism at all if you think that's how it works holy fuck.
It's not about whether or not someone has expertise, it's about whether or not they're culturally aligned (or perceived to be culturally aligned - will elaborate on that next) with some alienated "elite" subculture that constantly shits on plebians. The reason some people get genuinely (not wagon-circling-ly) upset about populism is because there ARE grifters who create these divides through misinformation, by intentionally associating certain practices with outgroups to artificially inflate the severity of it. Associating random prosocial behaviors with white people is one example, as is calling all high ticket art money laundering or trying to imply everything is jewish or the cause of black people through spurious correlations.
It's not necessarily the information or expertise, it's the tone and relatability and "otherness" of said people. It's the fact that many institutions have grown to the point of being unable to reliably keep their noses clean and instead play whack a mole with scandals an corruption, and for a good chunk of people it's easier to just go "fuck all of them I don't have time to discern between all this shit if I have a big chance of getting royally fucked by listening to you." Rapid advances in technology and science have made strong, definite answers hard to find, and news media insists on portraying new findings as such despite everything. People have longer memories due to the persistence of information now, so they remember when a source provided bullshit. People remember their grandparents having constant heart problems during the "eggs are bad for you, eat margarine" era, which then became "oops actually the complete opposite was true sorry! eto bleh"
So when it comes to art, the "expert artists" making things professionally are doing what exactly? Working for blizzard? Wizards of the coast? Disney? And you wonder why they are called sellouts?
You don't understand populism at all if you think that's how it works holy fuck.
It's not about whether or not someone has expertise, it's about whether or not they're culturally aligned (or perceived to be culturally aligned - will elaborate on that next) with some alienated "elite" subculture that constantly shits on plebians. The reason some people get genuinely (not wagon-circling-ly) upset about populism is because there ARE grifters who create these divides through misinformation, by intentionally associating certain practices with outgroups to artificially inflate the severity of it. Associating random prosocial behaviors with white people is one example, as is calling all high ticket art money laundering or trying to imply everything is jewish or the cause of black people through spurious correlations.
It's not necessarily the information or expertise, it's the tone and relatability and "otherness" of said people. It's the fact that many institutions have grown to the point of being unable to reliably keep their noses clean and instead play whack a mole with scandals an corruption, and for a good chunk of people it's easier to just go "fuck all of them I don't have time to discern between all this shit if I have a big chance of getting royally fucked by listening to you." Rapid advances in technology and science have made strong, definite answers hard to find, and news media insists on portraying new findings as such despite everything. People have longer memories due to the persistence of information now, so they remember when a source provided bullshit. People remember their grandparents having constant heart problems during the "eggs are bad for you, eat margarine" era, which then became "oops actually the complete opposite was true sorry! eto bleh"
So when it comes to art, the "expert artists" making things professionally are doing what exactly? Working for blizzard? Wizards of the coast? Disney? And you wonder why they are called sellouts?
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