There's plenty to be said about the aesthetics of 'too much' and the sociology of taste.
In other news, you can also move the dial in a political campaign by pretending to serve fries in McDonald's or by showing up to rallies in a garbage truck - it seems that American voters prefer these to a civics lesson.
(I speak of a certain madcap quality in electoral communications and of the appearance of having fun; I say nothing here of the desirability or undesirability of outcomes).
There's plenty to be said about the aesthetics of 'too much' and the sociology of taste.
In other news, you can also move the dial in a political campaign by pretending to serve fries in McDonald's or by showing up to rallies in a garbage truck - it seems that American voters prefer these to a civics lesson.
(I speak of a certain madcap quality in electoral communications and of the appearance of having fun; I say nothing here of the desirability or undesirability of outcomes).
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that political theatre is going on in here!