Reducing politics to dour left versus hedonist right foreclosed any genuine choice.

Evidence

There it is: THAT opposition — Bragg versus Darnell — was the problem of the mid-to-late Eighties. As soon as it was a question of dour meat and potatoes no fuss empiricism (left) versus bright and brash hedonism (right), there was no longer any real choice. The sublime had been extirpated, and what remained was a quotidian cavilling against the wipe-clean sheen of the mall. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 999

Categorization

• QUESTION: Would be worth chasing: the ‘Bragg versus Darnell’ polarity as a hinge moment in British music-politics discourse — what alternatives were mooted at the time and why did they fail?
• XREF: connects to: The left lost by framing freedom and fairness as a forced choice — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 104

Broader Connections

• The left lost by framing freedom and fairness as a forced choice #corroborates (0.85) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 104