it is incredibly creepy watching a mycelial idea propagate through a substrate of narcissism, idealism, and closed, stagnant institution

Something people have difficulty understanding: 1. Art isn’t *simple*. 2. Good art has exoteric and esoteric emanations 3. These are layered, such that the exoteric meaning can be trumped by the esoteric meaning which is trumped by the exoteric again

“Brown” is a term that is deployed in order to falsely imply that 1. Indians and Amerindians are somehow “the same” 2. Both of the above are somehow “black-adjacent”

This whole epoch fried my brain. It was too much. Neurons were blown out. It’s not enough that the guy’s almost 30 years old here, that he’s the son of a famous post colonial studies prof, that he’s shamelessly doing performance art to poast on social media, making an obscene

The gap between the kind of maga right winger you encounter on here and the kind of maga right winger you encounter out in the wild is unreal

All I see is nerds. It’s the same picture

Progress is garish, we proceed forward as tastefulness recedes

Or is he just trying to make it socially acceptable to purchase teslas again? Trying to figure out what the play is here

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Seasonal Clickfarm Worker This is related to how Democratic lies and misinformation are all top down, starting in academic journals or The Guardian, then picked up by the NYTimes, MSNBC, and then by their paid social media influencers. Whereas Republican lies and misinformation are bottom up, starting

A living breathing embodiment of the psychic pain imposed by the reality of diversity

Food delivery apps are actively killing sociality and the restaurant/bar industry is hurting because of them

“Why is pick pocketing not a thing in America?” This is not a post about pick pocketing

It sucks to be the only black guy in class

Whenever people talk shit about a hated group — “boomers” “white dudes” “roasties” “pajeets” “trump supporters” etc — you must remember that what they hate is a fantasy abstraction. People are surprisingly well-disposed toward specific human beings that are outgroup