Wednesday, April 4, 2012

What T.S. Eliot Teaches Us About the GOP Primary

This modernist claim, that the scientist/artist could brew specific feelings from fixed ingredients, has experienced a bizarre rebirth on the Republican campaign trail. Only now there are no artists, only fluky events that conspire to tangle up the mythologies behind particular candidates with certain physical facts. In our age of constant media exposure, political figures have grown nebulous, enveloped in clouds of perception. Somehow Santorum?s bowling ball and Romney?s Etch ?A Sketch have tapped into and solidified the abstractions, the popular anxieties, swirling around these two candidates?they?ve lodged in our imaginations as the politicians? objective correlatives.

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