When even bell hooks can’t critique Beyoncé and not make us cringe we’ve basically gone market-Völkisch: we can sense, instinctively, that what the mechanisms of the market (back then state) make coalesce into ‘the people’s voice’ speaks with a moral force that only decadents will set a course apart from or not want to get in on. Like every Völkisch movement this is happening because we really, really want community and social system to align, and making social system answer to community requires, like, advanced-stage communism so we go the other way around.