not to be dramatic but finding and displaying joy--personal, unselfconscious joy, not performative joy--in your chosen hobby/creative outlet/sport is one of the rarest and most radical acts we can do in late stage capitalism
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. "
-Frank Herbert, DUNE
This is the single most important book for understanding our current era. Ray Bradbury foresaw, in 1952, how we would voluntarily abandon literacy for mass entertainment and how that entertainment would be used to enslave us. Every single thing he envisioned has come to pass.
this was 49 years ago... all these racist white kids in this video are 55-75 today. they run the country, run the judicial system, are police chiefs, etc. let that marinate bro.