It can be perceived in a corner or on a shelf, conveniently far away. You live a kind of quiet knowing that it is there, whatever may happen to this exhausting, cruel, and cold world. Kitsch engineers the distance it has to be perceived from, together with the continuous attraction it exerts, that gently undermines that distance. For the syphilistine, the kitsch object is an angelic sign which protects him from himself, a symbol of gentle possession. As a matter of taste, the global's split between the hyperreal Atlantiquity and the syphilistine infrareal.
Taste hyperhates the many.
Syphilistines just infracare. Through each kitsch the abyss looks into you and tells you not to worry.