Imagine saying “I wish I could make more friends” and someone said “just try love yourself more”…as if that replaces friendship lmaooooo
People are so strange with this topic.
everything’s “performative” now. you’re using a 3DS in public? performative. have wired headphones? performative. reading a BOOK? you bet your ass that’s performative. now some freak is gonna take a creep shot of you and post it on twitter for the crime of not being on your phone
@mcmansionhell I like 'database' as the metaphor like in Azuma's Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. Like there are online subcultures that basically operate as if they were a logical intersection operating on a database.
@JuanchoS@arvofart When I actually bothered to put the speakers in their optimal position in the room and sat in the exact prescribed spot, I heard so many timbral details that hadn't been available previously.
The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there
Don't know what to watch? Put on a heist film.
Don't know what to do with your life? Put on a heist film.
Confronting the eternal recurrence of all things? Put on a heist film.
Don't kill me but I kinda agree with this. Especially when people say reading 'builds empathy.' As you'll find a lot of well-read people who are actually quite cruel! What you gain from reading is that 'next step' of integrating what you've read. Nothing is inherent or passive.
The oldest documented narrative, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is centrally about friendship, and depicts it as foundational to civilization. Blood ties play almost no meaningful role in the narrative.