"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Monday, November 13, 2017
The Trump Presidency - John Oliver - This Week Tonight
What Oliver said about the Trumpian tactics of distraction, changing the topic and trying to confuse issues seems to me to be so much more generally relevant after the brawl of the day.
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