Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
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I learned a ton from Robert Rubsam's heartfelt deep-dive into the Bruno Schulz film adaptations by the Brothers Quay, masters of stop-motion puppetry libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
Huh, wonder if this childlike recapitulation of past conflicts has had any effect on our popular culture. But alas, looks like we'll never know
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I wouldn‘t dare
I would direct you to the original post
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Philip Pullman, for example, is not someone whose work means a lot to me. But he so respects children and the task of growing into adulthood that it transformed his view of how and why to tell a story. That's serious stuff!
There is real value in good work created explicitly for children, if you take those children seriously. The problem with treating adults this way is that they are no longer children, and so treating them like children mostly means flattering their prejudices and pampering their insecurities.
Certainly no moral or social implications there...
Also this is clearly referencing the new Star Wars movies, which between their characters, actors, story beats, and overall aesthetic are clearly meant to remind adults of it felt to watch Star Wars when they were children
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Curious thing happening in the replies here. In order to avoid saying that things can get worse, because that would make them sound like a conservative, people are instead arguing that nothing can ever fundamentally change—an infinitely more conservative view of the world
“In mystified disbelief, we find ourselves listening to Israeli and American leaders invoking Armageddon, end-of-time combat, the Crusades, bombing the ‘bastards’ into the Stone Age.”
Amal Ghandour in @hidden-cities.com, writing from Beirut, on Israel’s "extraordinary tally of destruction."
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.
Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
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Sounds like a surefire recipe for lifelong happiness
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It'd sure be a lot more fun
Don't worry, the art form is already being starved
Yes, how could engaging with the dead at a house party possibly be different from chugging 25 thousand hours of baby-brained content on your phone
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Thankfully it's impossible
If I were to put on my culture studies hat I'd point out that this era dominated by childish forms of mass media (superheroes, video games, Star Wars) has also produced a politics of infantile regression. Just a thought
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Another tell from Trump administration officials is the invocation of WWII allied bombing as “precedent” to defend atrocities or potential atrocities.
The law of war rules governing the conduct of hostilities (eg aerial bombing) have developed quite a bit since WWII.
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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
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