No, the militant Left appeals to the adolescent Oedipus complex in insecure, immature artists for whom the status quo is a resented father-figure, and the socialist revolutionary is the liberator who will expel paternal authority. And even though artists have seen what happens when you chuck out dear old dad - as in the Soviet Union, Red China, Kampuchea, North Korea - these cultural darlings are usually too obsessed with their own visceral emotions to comprehend fully the catastrophe of the triumph they seek.
For such lesser artists, art is all about self: the world is merely a warehouse of artefacts for personal indulgence. Thus these solipsistic infants drink from the mythic wells of "liberation", and revere a serial-murderer from Argentina. The poster of Guevara on an undergraduate wall is an echo of this fatuity, a historically-ignorant and adolescent rejection of the poor devil who is paying for the flat. Above all, Guevara's enduring status in film and populist imagery is proof of mankind's pathetic inability to recognise evil when its guise is beauty and its lie is love.
indeed
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,Dean , and viewers like you
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