“One day, his wife found him dead, and, strange circumstance, he held in his hand a mysterious paper, on which, in large characters, was traced this terrifying avowal: ‘I now know there is a Hell.’” -Fr. F.X. Schouppe, SJ “The Dogma of Hell.”
How much of Backrooms’ compelling atmosphere is the anxiety of growing up in an empire past its peak?
I don’t know, but the movie felt familiar. For context, a building I worked in for two years:
I haw lost mutuals over this question but I hereby reaffirm my position, and I will note that mine opinions are always objectively correct, that no-child policies at weddings are not good and contrary to the very thing being celebrated.
I like how there was this one time somebody suggested "hey, why should the two most prestigious houses of Europe fight each other, why are France and Austria not allies again?" and then they just allied and everyone collectively shat their pants
beautiful.
it is fascinating how these old jobs, which used to be the majority of jobs, and considered so mundane so as to be out of view of most, are now oddities done by artisans on tiktok and instagram for fascinated doomscrollers, since the industrial revolution made them obsolete
now, with AI and tech proliferation, are the jobs being eliminated today, like "sales associate" or "lawyer" or "coder" going to become quaint performative tasks done only for entertainment and education, like one might see a cooper or a cobbler keeping the old ways alive in a colonial reenactment village?