9:17:24
4 year delta.
I have never been able to stand Swift or her music either, even though my supposed smart and “brilliant” colleagues couldn’t praise her and Beyonce enough for years. Swift, like Kim Kardashian, is a deep-state recruit/psyop.
Here is the insufferable narcissist in her natural habitat.
Swift’s mass draw is that she is an emotionally stunted 35 year old teenager, beloved by an emotionally stunted public.
Observe all the other performative narcissists in the Swift video, copying Swift and her fake boyfriend (while pretending not to), knowing they are being filmed and watched (while pretending that they don’t). It’s all one big theater, all the time.
In his essay, “Smartphone,” Byung-Chul Han writes that the “gaze builds primordial trust. Without the gaze, a disturbed relationship to self and others develops.”
The smartphone has replaced the gaze. No one looks at anyone but themselves and their phones anymore.