So this guy, Jesse Thorne, in the middle of it, wrote this thing called The New Sincarity, which I was kind of taken by, which he said he kind of had this cultural prophecy where he said, the big figures in the coming age will mix ironic over-the-top aesthetics with the sincerity of something of accomplishments that are undeniable. So here's what he meant by that. He uses the example of

evil caneval. Evil caneval pretends to be a superhero. He rairs these crazy American flag tassels.

He talks this huge big game. He sets up this crazy thing with like jumping a motorcycle over

100 cars. So totally ironic. But then he actually jumps

over the cars. So it's undeniable. And so he said that would be the fusion in the coming culture.

I actually think this came to pass with Donald Trump, which is that Donald Trump is a caricature

of himself and is a completely kind of bizarre

person in his aesthetics, but you can't brush him off because he has this undeniable

accomplishment of winning the presidency. And so his presidency is the realization of the

new sense, a dark version of the new sincerity, which is that people kind of, that the dominant cultural

form would be total bizarro aesthetics plus undeniable sincerity. I will also add, as a grace note here,

I think Nathan J. Robinson is new sincerity. Well, I was noticing myself in this description.

I was thinking, you know, it's interesting. I am simultaneously a parody of a magazine

editor and an actual magazine. Yeah, so Nathan has perfectly alive, lived by the New

Sincerity because he is totally, like he parodies a magazine. Curd Affairs is kind of a

winking joke in itself. You're a winking joke as an editor of his current affairs, but it is

undeniable that you write good 10,000 word articles that people want to read and experience as an actual magazine.

So, me and Trump, about the zeitgeist.

Some other examples I gave were Lil Nasak's.