re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea

I’m not really sure how to react.

My point is that we’re beset by a form of reaction that views existing outside their control as injury requiring self-defense.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire, she’ll be fine. But if you’ve been listening to the actual people talking about this…the teenage girls who are her fans might not be, because they’re also being positioned as a kind of non-person political target. And more generally, “these are people who spend all their time imagining that nothing is random and celebrate death and suffering” is a pretty notable thing in and of itself, because it contextualizes shit like…all the actual people dying as byblows of American institutions that have assumed reactionary policies.

I’ll again mention my theory that much of the fear and rage over her in particular can probably be attributed to her physicality as approaching a kind of Lebensborn racial purity and fertility ideal. Her likeness also plays some role in determining the demographics of her fanbase, which coincidentally tends to resemble the Lebensborn target endpoint population, which is why they’re panicking over Taylor in ways they don’t for equivalent status activist celebrities like Beyoncé and Alicia Keys.