something that a lot of portrayals of monarchy in contemporary fantasy seem to miss is how powerful the emotional attachments it inspired in its subjects actually was. when you read about 17th century englishmen or 18th century americans contemplating war against their king, you
@MattZeitlin There’s an untranslatable Turkish word for the melancholy of living among the skeletal remains of your civilization’s past glory - hüzün. Highly recommend istanbul by orhan pamuk
🇮🇷🇮🇳 Iranian President Pezeshkian is addressing the BRICS Summit.
Behind him, India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal is absolutely demolishing a box of nuts.
Eating. Licking his fingers. Going back in.
Eventually, someone takes the box away.
A diplomatic intervention in the truest sense.
Writer: Oliver
The only thing I have to say on the 25th anniversary is what Hunter S Thompson said in the aftermath. There's been few things said more prescient than the party's over. For someone like me who partied like hell in the 90's, 21stC has been very different. The party is still over.
The world ended in 2008, with the financial crisis. Or rather the previous social system ceased to be able to reproduce itself. We’re only now seeing the downstream effects of that. Millions of missing people (never born), euphemistically termed “the demographic cliff.”