If totalitarianism is politics dominating economics, then inverted totalitarianism is economics dominating politics, which is the situation we are in today. The "free world" has successfully recreated Stalinism.
Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...
Unrelated, but how has no one figured out what seagulls' favorite chip flavor is. I honestly thought this would have been figured out already but I guess it's untouched territory.
kamala harris: sucks, is a cop, xanned out 24/7. all this is true. i do not so much want harris to be president as i am submitting to the trickster god that clearly rules our future.
Toxic masculinity is a private prison in the south with indentured servitude while toxic femininity is a Scandinavian prison with an open door policy.
Being enby is prison abolition. It's gender justice.
My favorite reading of Ratatouille involves assuming there is no rat and instead that Remi represents the inner monologue or inner self of Linguine. The use of a rat could be a class analogy for where he comes from or how he cooks, not by using his thinking brain, but his animal brain instead.
Americans are socialized through television and healthy conflict resolution skills make for bad television, so Americans are on a steady diet of unhealthy, ineffective coping mechanisms for navigating the world via television. Suburban isolation is partly to blame for this.
I think people say "simulation" to describe their experience of the world through mediums because this bypasses their intuitive social senses which tune into body language and presence. They end up interacting only with their thinking mind which does not have that unconscious socialization.
I'm reading *Detransition Baby* and it's oddly similar to American Psycho. It might be because they're both sort of cliché New York books, but I also interpret Patrick Bateman as having aspergers and this slightly reminds me of that with its narrative voice.
