Horror is the only popular contemporary genre which is allowed to contain art.

The tear is a word. As if sadness could be cast out like a demon by speaking its name.

There is something beautifully perverse in Darwin's intentional remembering of facts harmful to his theory. It has the tragic grandeur of resentment. A perfectly English middle class self hatred.

Conspiracy theory is the highest form of defence mechanism fantasy.

Too much bitterness ruins the cocktail but no bitters at all and it lacks complexity.

Every artist needs an aesthetic enemy!

Adorno makes an interesting aside in Minima Moralia that antisemitism began with Christ's remark that "those who are not with me are against me" (Mathew 12:30).

Cinema literally handed the ring of Gyges to humanity.

In the future people will be paid for their family life and will pay to go to work.

The Simpsons killed the television but the corpse remains.

1981 - 1996: the shit generation.

The fundamental tragedy is that our defence mechanisms are mutually inconsistent.

Crisis as a defence against some deeper crisis.

To go through life without at least one midlife crisis would be a terrible failure.

The notion of being cancelled evokes death and instantly has an erotic appeal.

I’m pretending to want to give you what you’re pretending to want.

Aesthetically speaking muscles are weapons.

Application of the categorical imperative to the prisoners dilemma simply says do not lie. Is this an arbitrary coincidental detail?

Come friendly tears and fall on cheeks.

The median age of death in Europe is 78. This crisis is well beyond midlife.