GA vs. Center Study (Adam Katz)

GA vs. Center Study

GA is the sabotaging of the originary hypothesis. The originary hypothesis opens up inquiry, while GA shuts down inquiry by producing an ideology of "liberal democracy." Nothing that doesn't "affirm" "liberal democracy" can be stated within GA. This creates a wasteland of social thinking and an incredibly impoverished understanding of humanity.

This consumerist "fork" from the originary hypothesis valorizes the highest form of consumerism, connoisseurship. The connoisseur identifies the "best," and is himself the best at recognizing what is best. If "liberal democracy" is the "best" form of society, all works of art and culture approximate "bestness" to the extent that they affirm or prefigure "liberal democracy." All aesthetic judgments within GA will conform to this model.

"Resentment" is the label placed on those who don't model themselves on the best, and these resenters are the object of GA resentment.

GA is a bet on the indefinite continuation of the bestness of "liberal democracy"; a bet one must keep doubling down on lest the entire edifice collapses. Any claim that is not a bet laid on "liberal democracy" is unintelligible.

And "liberal democracy" itself has no meaning other than "American dominated global order," predicated on all markets, literal and figurative, being penetrated by America to the point of saturation.

All this is inscribed in the "DNA" of GA.