french philosophers love using disneyland as an analogy for critique. you can tell every single one of them is fuming because they're forced to live with eurodisney next door
For Pride Month, I'm urging people to watch Gregg Araki's Nowhere.
Despite being made in the 90s, I think the themes of trying and failing to enjoy life because you see the world falling apart in the corner of your eye feel relevant in 2026.
reading about the roman empire because you think theyre cool is child's play. Have you considered reading about them as a means of meditating upon Evil
i find them awful politically but i think ppl are too revisionist about radiohead. every other day i see posts here calling their records 0/10s and this just cannot be your objective critical position if you thought they were great before learning of their relationship to israel
Was JUST talking to my wife about how the algo has trained kids away from exploring musical history and having a contextual cultural depth of knowledge, so homogeneity sets in. And that's just, every cultural input now. Everything is just riffing off the last decade.
Many of you are too young to know this but Gangnam Style was a cultural phenomenon, we had like a solid year of everything under the sun doing a parody of it
Remember how she had to hide being a hazbin hotel fan because her tradcath husband thought it was satanic until HE watched it and interpreted it as a conservative masterpiece and then she was allowed to watch hazbin hotel as a 34 year old woman
We’re fast approaching the moment when education is something that only happens in theory. Increasingly, high schoolers read at a third-grade level. Elite college students are handing in essays they haven’t even read. We may soon see a world where no learning happens at all.