Corrosion

Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.

In other words, because the other side does it, we can do it.

There are three major psychological weapons that combatants often transfer into culture war: scapegoating, deception, and violent threats.