{"id":571,"date":"2024-08-14T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2024-08-14T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:01:20","slug":"when-egalitarianism-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"When Egalitarianism Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/when-egalitarianism-attacks:1?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A short video about the negative effects of egalitarianism, especially Marxian versions of egalitarianism, on economic policy, culture, and aesthetics, but especially on aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JI88L2oMxAI\">video<\/a> by Vee recently about the trend in videogames toward uglier worlds and characters, and clunkier game mechanics, and something about the way he described the problem made this click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;m hoping that by more precisely identifying the problem, creators and critics will be better able to fight this kind of nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Read my notes for this episode <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/when-egalitarianism-attacks-notes.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Video available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/when-egalitarianism-attacks:1\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/Lga2tknPA7o9\/\">BitChute<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4TZLKgPyk8A\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video about the negative effects of egalitarianism, especially Marxian versions of egalitarianism, on economic policy, culture, and aesthetics, but especially on aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,26,2],"tags":[209,207,37,208,210,186,206],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-creation","category-economics","category-gaming","category-video-link","tag-aesthetics","tag-art","tag-economics","tag-frankfurt-school","tag-labor-theory-of-value","tag-marxism","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/books-25.jpg?fit=638%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}