Most people do not realize this. Epstein’s MAIN job was laundering money for multiple nations covert operations and high profile businessmen and foreign leaders like the Marcos’, Adnan Khashoggi, MBS and many more. Epstein contributed directly to the financial collapse on 2008.

One could do an entire media studies course on the priorities given to palace intrigue and individually represented evil—no doubt still worthy of attention—over and above the still far larger effects of malevolent geopolitical statecraft wiping out entire cities and people.

i’ve had this thought as well but imo Lichtenberg on 18th century fiction only validates it. 18th century fiction was bad and embarrassing then and it’s still bad and embarrassing now. writers just have to lean into it, i think. notes toward a fiction of abject humiliation

worth remembering that this, let’s call it particular orientation, was normal in the 80s and 90s, especially for rich guys. it was always gross, but middle aged rich white guys could freely sexualize preteens and you were a prude if you complained

thought about this one some more and it is interesting how effectively the media prioritizes “individually represented evil” even when the same people in the same emails are also documented carrying out “malevolent geopolitical statecraft”

supercut of every passage written by non-proletarian marxist/'marxian' writers reflecting on what marx would have thought about the writer's own class position

how many times can you psyop your pets into accepting daylight savings time shifts before they simply refuse

do people say stuff like this about any other type of music? i think i’ve only ever seen it said about rock (and they love to say it)