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I think about how lots of the “big box chain” stores do that it. It’s vile stuff man.

Part of me thinks any normal-ish decent-ish journalist who gets into media is exposed to “the machine” they either get ground down by it or they brake parts of themselves to fit into it. It’s a bummer

I have never liked Dr. Strange as a character (I like him more as a plot device rather than a character if that makes sense) but somehow every piece of art I see him in goes so hard. The old comics as well as the modern ones have some of the most bombastic use of color it’s rad as hell. Also his the spell shouts are pretty slick.

Exactly dude! That's why I can't rock with these people who say "Oh they just rich kids who spend their parent's money". I always think "mothafucka the government does nothing but spend your parents money on bombing brown people"

The hottest takes get the most attention,

Very true! I think about that often. These media platforms incentive bad-faith dialogue all the time. It's really a shame that "effort posts" are often seen as "cringe", I would extend that to the social/society level in that anything addresses the origin/cause of issues seems to be seen as "unrealistic"

Envy of having the freedom to express principles - including freedom from entrenched poverty, debt, and responsibilities within that moment of their lives - and malleability of youth to adapt careers, overcome setbacks easily, and readjust their lives from the blowback of having principles.

Well said.

It is not a coincidence that Reagan in California and the neoliberal project went on to undermine and strip higher education of government financial support and turn them into vocational centers and degree mills. Binding the future leaders of the country to debt makes for compliant workers and docile minds who will not upset the status quo.

Dialetic analysis is always good. I don't want to neglect the history of this sort thing. America really does hate education.

A mentality of "I've got mine" and "We could change things for the better, but there is too much to risk and too much to lose.

That's 100% accurate.

Good article. I am unfamiliar with the author but I'll check out there work for sure.

But yes people who have been out of college for a while want to think of themselves as capable of providing sage advice to younger people when really their brains have just been broken even more than they were at a younger age.

I didn't really think of this one, but it seems sound to me. The kind of "I think myself a genius and untrickable" college educated folks seems to feel you learn once and then you're done. You self-examine one time and that's it.

I imagine it's a survivorship bias combined with most american's being little Hitler's.

Agreed. The survivorship bias one sounds like it's on point. I think a lot of the "I got mine" mindset really echos upward and manifests in very strange ways in America.

Disco Elysium's writer wrote that in the devil's kitchen. Nothin' but hot fire.

Yeah it sucks that Dilla and DOOM are gone. It’s really a shame that such prolific artists are gone, but likely they inspired a lot of different music and art.