Slavoj Zizek suggests that the best way to undermine nazism is to divorce their aesthetic power from ideology, and to enjoy it in isolation. Rammstein does this with incredible success, he says.

If modern fascists discovered aesthetics and hired someone like Errolson Hugh to make their uniforms, we’d be screwed, but so far they just wear hawiian shirts or sugar-cereal patches and look like dweebs. 

What I find interesting about the idea of divorcing an aesthetic from its ideology is just how easy it is to do. As we know here and elsewhere I think about Ludwig Wittgenstein a lot. He understood that when one human says something, the complete understanding of that thing is his alone, and maybe not even that. 

That one person could insist that no, they have divorced the feeling of an aesthetic from the intention of it feels...silly to me. Things have underlying realities to them, truth, even: the medium is the message, even if you don’t understand it, or are really working hard to remain ignorant to it. 

But that doesn’t stop folks from teasing language apart and suggesting that this means that, and that means this. The world is a car accident and we’re all interpreting it like a bunch of concussed housewives on our way back from the grocery store.