he is one of the posters of all time we do kinda have to hand that to the guy

yeah i keep finding myself unable to write him off entirely, i really do think there's something to him. We're worse off if we completely discard his whole deal. I just can't swallow the methodological issues and the arrogance of making yourself the supreme arbiter of interpreting the unconscious

huh seems like a lot of this is about some pretty weird neuroses partially related to gender people aren't necessarily aware of having no freud that wasn't an invite please leave stay away that's not your cue not like that get away please

Decadence (in the general sense of using politics as arena for weird psychological stuff, not pursuit of some kind of common good) is both very very useful to understand our current condition, and also supremely annoying because it puts me adjacent to psychoanalytical thinkers i have big beef with

A somewhat related kinda-crippling experience at the time that lives deep in your heart is to read Wittgenstein when you're much too young. It might also get you into minimalist drone music over the years

(in the type of resentments it fosters, i wouldnt necessarily go any further than that)

The conspirascist sentiment of *it's a big club and you ain't in it* feels revealing here

yep, look at how the topics in his video titles and thumbnails change over the last 2-3 years

interesting feeling to watch some synthesizer reviews and tips on what software aphex twin used from a guy, not pay attention to their uploads for a bit, then run into this

one must imagine sisyphus bouncing on it happily

Are there interesting things to say about incentives and optimization processes in our modern media environment and whether they encourage the kinds of cultural expression we claim to desire and value? Absolutely. Is this an entirely unprecedented new phenomenon? Certainly not

also that like, *mass culture is going to shit and is rotting the brains of the youth* has been a complaint that has kept cropping up for generations at this point

Does this make sense or have basis in fact? Lol, lmao. But a lot of them do genuinely believe that

i've come to think a surprisingly large amount of (typically older) right-wing nationalist types genuinely do not think of their beliefs as such. They are sincerely convinced the world moved *radically* to the left (an existential threat of course) and they more or less stayed the same.

One of those fun songs that's undeniably great, but expressions of great admiration for it tends to be
a red flag

Aah, thinking and talking too much and too pretentiously about pop-culture ephemera. You were at my side all along. My true mentor. My guiding moonlight

raiden please turn off the game console right now i beg you please let me escape

Marinettis Manifesto of Futurism really does strike me as essential reading to get a sense of one of the core *engines* behind these guys thinking so to speak

raiden please turn off the game console right now i beg you please let me escape

the production history of the LOTR films

Politely i disagree, The 1975 think they're the post-postmodern Huey Lewis & The News

in fairness the occasional good things did come out of it

Benny Anderssons Orkester is an interesting post-ABBA phenomenon. You've pretty much had the most successful music career you could've asked for, and then decide to spend your late career digging through the plastic wrapped chintzy layers of Swedish pop-culture national romanticism.

In this taxonomy, Max Martin is arguably more ABBA than ABBA themselves ever were

Since this distinction is made on a Sweden US axis, what then is the Fleetwood Mac of Sweden, and the ABBA of the US I wonder

Yeah that's why I said *heritage*, since I knew Dua Lipa wasn't born there. Rita Ora completely fell off my radar though, I can't think of anything she's done the last couple years

Sometimes I think about how there are at least 2 American pop stars with proud Albanian heritage rn, and how certain uncles of various Balkan origins could probably be easily coaxed into spending disproportionate amounts of life energy litigating supposed implications of that

A movie theater date? In front of Zendaya?

If you figure it out please share with the class

An itch in my brain about the Fluxus art movement and Andy Warhols clique I can't quite scratch. I wonder if the current state of the entertainment industries largely proves many of their observations right, but not necessarily in a way that flatters them.