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Meritocrat

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@matthewstoller Most people are just jealous, it’s a very humanized emotion that few could escape. But if you removed the ego out of jealousy, you’re left with admiration.

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@matthewstoller Exactly what I was thinking. Bro could’ve chosen to coast through life but instead he went to school to study extensively about movie, started a company, produced multiple classics, and kept broadening his horizons. Few rich kids could achieve that.

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@amasad This took me out oh god

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@benparr @Muse Need one thank you!

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@MattPRD @Muse Need one! Thank you!

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@elonmusk Can’t hold anything over anyone when people stop participating the game of “life”. It’s a form of freedom, although not the one you may prefer.

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Three major traumas of my life:

Brody in #Homeland

Marissa Cooper in #theOC

AND

The Circe scene in #theOdyssey

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@SquawkCNBC @alexandracooper Andrew’s face tells it all… he’s trying to get her to talk about the business model and profitability, and she said ‘in a good way, time will tell’. I almost choked myself watching the full interview.

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@OocTobeyM DEI fillin

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@Ghostsmith719 @beanflxing @HoodiiBron 11 tops

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@KapoorAviral Thought it was just me! Thank you for the info

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@dana_marlane When Josh Brown mentioned this I lost it lmao

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@TheJudgeCNBC @stephenLweiss Please stop bullying the elder 🥲

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Peace out!

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Marvel’s Spider-Man and the Culture of Instant Gratification

Marvel’s Spider-Man did not merely modernize Peter Parker; it capitalized on a society trained to demand speed, compression, and ambiguity.

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Spider-Man should not embody quick success. His entire mythology is an argument against it. Power arrives suddenly; character does not.

A culture unwilling to watch Peter earn himself may eventually forget why his victories were supposed to matter at all.

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The problem is not that modern Spider-Man is unwatchable. It is that he has been adapted to a culture with diminishing patience for becoming. We are offered the sensation of depth without always being asked to endure the time depth requires.

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The irony is obvious: the franchise rejected TASM’s continuity while retaining parts of its cinematic grammar.

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Even familiar compositions—the crane imagery, the impact shots involving trucks, the sense of Spider-Man’s body moving through real urban space—continue to be echoed. You do not repeatedly borrow from a language that supposedly had nothing worth preserving.

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And if The Amazing Spider-Man were truly the artistic failure people claim, why does its visual language keep returning? The high-resolution, tactile aesthetic. The elongated swinging movements. The intimate city-scale perspective.

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Marvel understood this perfectly. It created a Spider-Man optimized for velocity: charming, immediately integrated into a successful cinematic universe, supported by established heroes, and protected by the infrastructure of a franchise already too large to fail.