“…The fascist style at its best is Art Deco, with its sharp lines and blunt massing of material, its petrified eroticism.” Beautiful, I hadn’t realized until now that Sontag wrote on Art Deco. Gilbert-Rolfe and Hermsdorf write that Art Deco replaces the ‘naturalistic flow’ of Art Nouveau with “the technological flow…

In the spirit of Voltaire “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (or more accurately, Evelyn Beatrice Hall). Actually I think the ethics/morality distinction is good but slippery, given morals as individual understandings versus ethical principles as systems.

I hate to be that "philosophy student" but this comic seems like it is based on Artistotle's Politics - where humankind is different from animals because we accumulate things we have no use for. This starts when humans create money- items with no use, only exchange or symbolic value. So 'primitive' selfishness and…