everything about dua lipa’s life is like she rubbed a genie lamp and got all 3 wishes. she’s naturally gorgeous, always on some type of dream vacation, and met her husband bc they were reading the same book. for my mental health, i have to block her
This triumph of “lived experience” over study has been disastrous for political analysis as a whole. Living your life as a certain group gives you no real expertise in analyzing their struggles and doesn’t make you an authority on the political of philosophical study of them.
@KTH06er except language is literally what structures thoughts and reality. a culture w a language that only denotes 3 colors only sees 3 colors. so on. the greatest source of alterity is language.
This might be the perfect 'Americans aren't dumb but they're incredibly insular' tweet. If you've spent your entire life in a single, dominant monoculture it doesn't occur to you that words have different meanings in different places. They're just correct or incorrect.
@crackgalore its very directly about the fans. yes and? also adressed them directly. semantically it DOES make sense and is rather explicit actually
the "all of you" that gave her your heart is all of u, actually, the fans
@crackgalore theres been a fascinating shift in pop music lately where the "you" the song adresses is no longer a fantasized object of desire but rather the voice of the audience. "its a knife when you're on top bc logically...they wanna see you fall" is like this too. thats what endure means