That was interesting, it’s too bad he didn’t mention how liberalism itself has been caricaturised. He said how liberalism believes all cultures and peoples are essentially interchangeable, that is demonstrably false, that is the caricaturised version of liberalism. The core tenet of liberalism is the right to be an individual, which carries the obligation to respect that right in others. There are cultures that do not respect that right, and are incompatible with liberalism. The consequence of neoliberalism and the total atomization of the individual has annihilated the core of liberalism, through the destruction of the cultural norm of respecting others individuality in so far as they uphold that obligation themselves, transforming liberalism into the negation of itself, that the “fuck you got mine” ethos and the cultures/ideologies that force themselves on others should be respected.
I think he misses a crucial point, that the “image” or “mythos” is the real, or hyperreal. In today’s society, those caricatures (depressingly) are more “real” than real. The medium is the message.