If i pull up to a gas station and see a dog with saggy tiddys walking around I just know the crime rate is high in that area and need to get my ass on !!! 🛻💨🐕
“Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.”
Richard Nixon, born 9th January 1913
Nixon by Norman Rockwell [1968]
The media will never tell you this but nothing is stopping you from celebrating old festivals & traditions. You can bake a Twelfth Night cake. You can go wassailing & caroling at Christmas. There’s so much despair in the world because we yearn for the magic and beauty of ritual.
Video games are still written off as merely juvenile play by ‘adults’ who spend huge amounts of time and money on fashion, movies, television, sports, and politics (yes, also an entertainment product if you aren’t making money or decisions), but they reflect aspirations and interests — and importantly, very often, the aspirations and interests of boys coming into their early manhood.
So much of who we become by 20 or 40, in the prime of adult life, traces back to those secret wishes and hidden hatreds and quiet hopes of the boy leaving his boyhood who wants to get to the next level (faster than, and leading his friends), to smash the enemy, and to rescue the princess.
That is why it is a small, acute tragedy - one imperceptible to all but those closest to it - for a society when an IP as iconic and semiotically rich as Halo is so badly mishandled, and a greater, deeper tragedy when the industry itself becomes subjected to fashionable political forces that intend not only to ignore, but to basically antagonistically subvert and injure those sentiments.