A modern industrial society, with its modern complexity, requires in turn a modern politics which reduces and compresses that complexity to manage it.
And so archetypes are put forward to direct and channel the political energy. The brokerage of images - images embodied in individuals - as a historical and social mode of politicking is furthered as a mechanism to make this process possible.
Archetypes do have to be made though, and today they are manufactured. And the brokerage itself must pass through a mode of manufacture too. And even the mode of manufacture itself has to exist within a social and historical reality.
So we get left with a largely binary set of images - which are both crude and refined in their own ways - which do nothing to describe reality, other than to ritualistically function to keep the industrial society in motion.
And as the processes of industry break down and tumble apart, so too do the political machines, and the crude images crash against each other as their crude and simplistic barriers meet together violently.
