you used to be able to get tremendous cultural currency online for something as simple as casually letting people know you’d once read a kurt vonnegut book and remembered some words from it. nobody cares about that stuff anymore, though. a shame, maybe. but so it goes.
I love reading biographies of Marx because it's such a totally different and fascinating world. What do you mean the average university students would go to beer-halls to argue about Hegelian metaphysics with each other over drinks
Going out for the night, and Rod Serling narration from the heavens started introducing me as "a vile man, one that holds no principles" who will "soon learn the most important lesson of all". Troubling.
something i find exhausting is 25+ year old people obsessed with the contradictions within themselves.... wow you know zizek and watch love island??? you rave and also love cassavetes??? swiftie that likes midwest emo???? should we throw a party? should we invite sasha grey?