“Don't want to hear about eugenics, the birth rate, or accelerationism from anyone who objects to selective breeding through gestational surrogacy using low functioning down syndrome women—progress stops for nobody”
Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.
The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.
✍️ Philip Patrick
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The French Revolution was also, in its own lifetime, a failure. Napoleon lost. It shared the chief characteristic of all genuinely revolutionary regimes, being brought down by a reactionary coalition after demonstrating its superiority & thus its mortal danger to an older world.