What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.
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