OBAA: America fucking sucks but the kids will be alright and they'll be our hope.
Digger: The West fucking sucks and they will bring us to mass destruction and there's nothing we can do but to create art to escape the cruel reality that we live in.
Iñarritu might have lost the studio 150 million, garnered the rejection of the critics and lost most of his pull in the industry, but today he gained something more important: my approval.
I am the kind of person to stop living until I figure things out, which is obviously impossible, and then feel guilty for not living, and then feel like I'm rushing into things when I live because have I reckoned with them? Have I internalized them? Have I sufficiently pondered?
A tyrant must appear deeply religious. People are less likely to fear injustice from a ruler they believe is pious. They are also less likely to rebel because they think God is on his side. ~ Aristotle
Why is it that actual human jobs like baker, florist, teacher, and childcare worker barely pay a livable wage, while fake jobs like AI specialist bootlicker, marketing campaign parasite, and synergy consultant are pulling six figures?
My main experience with logging out is that extremely offline people repeat online discourse on a delay and you can just trace what online corner everything is from and how far they are behind.