Matching corrupt worlds can still carry opposite political orientations

Evidence

Ellroy is a Hobbesian conservative, who evinces a macho pragmatism that accepts violence, exploitation and betrayal as inevitable. The same phenomena are oppressively omnipresent in Peace’s world, but there is no sense of acceptance: instead, his novels read like howls of agony and calls for retribution, divine or otherwise. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 179

Categorization

  • XREF: Parallels Adorno’s point that the same phenomena can be read as accepted or as howled against. — connects to: Structural corruption in Peace’s Yorkshire is a Gnostic reality beyond illumination — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 182; Mimetic star performance can rob a fictional world of autonomous reality — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 192