i'll never get over how funny it is that east asians learned antisemitic conspiracy theories and were like "dude that fucking rocks we need these guys on side"
After 2016 society started getting worse in tons of different ways as scammers proliferated, the rich got more powerful, and the government stopped being able to perform basic functions
According to 90% of this website there is no explanation as to why this happened
Cormac McCarthy staggering to the typerwriter after a couple of long island ice teas and hammering out "horses are the most scariest animal in the world"
DFW: I've written Infinite Jest, an epic about endless entertainment that kills you
Roku: At Last, We've Created Infinite Jest, The TV Channel That Kills You
And here's my disconnect with the current film culture - their obsession with realism, relatability, logic - the low hanging fruit of cinema. I just don't give a shit about if it makes sense. I don't care that Willie Scott suddenly jumps into an actual musical at the opening of Temple of Doom. I don't care if Wolf of Wall Street is factual to the dot. Audiences today will check out of the movie when Travis Bickel takes her to a porn theater because that makes no sense. Fuck these low imagination brutalists stripping dream logic from our movies. There's a reason the Odyssey has no gods - because the audience thinks they're smarter than Homer.
it’s really hard, as a woman, to do a post that hits all the key elements of a Divorced Guy tweet, but she nailed it. for straight women over 40 this is like watching Olga Korbut at the 72 olympics. shes changing the game
@alexcfields They kind of fall in the same boat of Boots Riley in their movies are always about exactly what they’re about, it can’t be subtle, they’re about THIS.
These movie-watchers are mistaken: the story, as they experience it, depends almost entirely on all the elements they think they don't care about; all the more reason for critics to emphasize those elements and to make clear the connection (even the possible misunderstanding).
Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
seeing people talk about the dollar losing world reserve currency status in such bland terms is very funny. Americans baring the full cost of any product unsubsidized by a hegemonic dollar would revolt instantly. this country would balkanize into 120 statelets within a week