Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
there was a tweet going around about this but people really don’t see fiction as storytelling anymore, they see it as objective reporting of actual events happening in other worlds. what does “losing to the plot” even mean? why are you even here?
Excuse me, I think there’s been a mistake, I need to speak with the manager. I was supposed to be part of the in-group the law protects but does not bind, not the out-group it binds but does not protect.
no actually Disney needs to mandate that, in order to work on a Star Wars project, you need to have seen every Kurosawa film, the entire Budd Boetticher Ranown Cycle, and all three Flash Gordon serials from 1936-1940
If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of the West, we will do it ourselves.
We started an independent group to study the Great Texts of the Western canon, together.
...and we are now 600 members strong! 🙌
What should we add to our reading list??
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the school year is ending I haven’t classes to teach and I am going to be out of money for some months. To pay rent and other bills I am trying to raise $400 by the end of the month. Pls share & donate if you can
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Reading online discourse around identity is so disheartening. There's no meaningful theories of selfhood or desire. Everything is political, but there isn't a theory of politics either. It's nth-hand scraps of freud und foucault and fanon blended together and pasteurized.
I'm actually becoming more whitepilled about our world's cultural future, but only if we're able to seize it for ourselves. The world around us may be riper than we realize for a flourishing of meaning and truth