It is friendship and enmity, enthusiasm and disenchantment, peristalsis and ideology. Thinking has, among other functions, to establish an intellectual order in life. As well as to destroy that order. Every concept combines many disparate phenomena in life, and just as frequently, a single phenomenon will give rise to many new concepts. It is common knowledge that our poets have stopped wanting to think ever since they think they heard the philosophers say that thought is no longer supposed to be a matter of thinking, but rater of living.
Life is to blame for everything.
Two syllogisms emerge from these assertions. Art peels kitsch off of life. Kitsch peels life off of language. These are two splendid syllogisms. According to the second, it appears that kitsch equals art.