When ppl are discussing the Worst Modern President and seem to have forgotten that you ushered in the Overton window shift that allowed for every subsequent depredation while squandering vast wealth to ever-so-slightly expedite the failure of an already doomed and sclerotic USSR.
Shamefully in my youth I sneered at various instances of "bad" audience behavior at movies: blabbing during films, incoherent Q&A questions, plastic bag crinkling, "inappropriate" laughter, pant shitting... I want to get it on the record that I miss it all now all of it is good.
Men will literally take the audio of their lover's cries as she's murdered during a Fourth of July celebration and repurpose it as "a good scream" for the low-budget exploitation horror movie Coed Frenzy instead of going to therapy
There's this weird strain of argument I keep seeing online where someone goes: "Oh, so you only like the opinions of PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH YOU?" And it's like...yeah. That's what agreeing is.
One can't really expect too much of a generation that allowed itself to be convinced that an album titled "In the Aeroplane (sp?) Over the Sea" was an instance of good or even great art.