These people want to strip away everything that makes life worth living—literature, language, art, poetry, passion, beauty—until we live in a bleak utilitarian hell of emails, AI girlfriends and machine-generated movies.
The first time I ever read anything about the flu pandemic of 1918 was the biography of Truman by David McCullough. I wondered then why no one teaches/talks about this event in history. Now I understand why.
Idk how to articulate this but the ps1/2 era hit the perfect sweet spot where u could make random weird shit but the barrier to entry was just high enough that u needed to rly commit to it as opposed to throwing together a low effort shitpost in unity and calling it a day
Mexico just elected a PhD-holding engineer and climate scientist as their first female president.
Meanwhile in the U.S. the options are the oldest whitest guys ever served up and include a rapist, a liar, a criminal and a stooge.