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OP's bravery is off the charts, and he just got a cool new shirt

Special Edition and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The obvious answer would be any Buñuel film, Un Chien Andalou was released in 1929 and is appreciably more viscerally intense than pretty much anything on TV today. Far from the only example. Don't fall into the trap of thinking our modern ideas are new, they aren't, everything new you will ever see was previously thought of, tried out, and discarded by past people whose culture didn't have a use for it at the time. Everything. It's incredibly misguided to think a modern cartoon would be overwhelmingly intense to a supposed primitive of the 1960s, only perceived as colors and motion. It's a form of teleological presentism that perpetuates the fiction that we're somehow more intellectually developed than people who came before us. That happens a lot. It makes us uncomfortable to admit that a paleolithic man could function as well in a modern office as any of us, so we invent feel-good myths about how we're more intellectually sophisticated than every past generation, but we aren't. Not socially, not biologically, not at all. It isn't surprising that people still believe in pop-pseudohistory like the so-called Dark Ages, a Renaissance fiction.

Ask me how I know you're not into foreign and independent film of that time period, nor from the several decades preceding it.

"That was the stun setting. This is not. I can reduce this pumping station to a pile of debris."

—Data, the most sophisticated android in the federation, conducting diplomacy

Suppose I cook you lobster ravioli as served at a Michelin-star restaurant. The filling is a perfect blend of lobster, salmon, egg white, basil, lemon zest, and seasoning. The poaching stock is expertly crafted from roasted lobster shell, carrots, celery, onions, tomato, and lemongrass, then deglazed with brandy, reduced, and strained till it's perfect. Consider further that the pasta was made fresh by hand, and expertly stuffed, and served with lemon vinaigrette and tomato chutney, all prepared by an expert hand with fresh ingredients. It's a perfect dish, one that has so many great things going on. It's a balanced symphony of unique flavors interplaying perfectly.

Oh, except I used cheap, nasty, frozen lobster and it's still raw. Oops. Are you still going to eat your ravioli anyway? No. It doesn't matter how many great things are very much still actually happening, there's no point in eating it now. It's ruined. All of it.

Bad writing is the raw shellfish of media. It doesn't matter how good everything else about the show is, because if it's written badly, everything is ruined. It's the one thing that can't be forgiven and taints everything it touches at the source. Good intentions don't make up for raw shellfish.

B^U

You know what? Fuck you for making me read this schizoid crap, you get double gangstalkers from now on.

I give books, but for flavor, I give actively harmful books. Healthy people get pseudoscientific books on Chronic Lyme Disease or The Obesity Code, and mentally ill people get books about gangstalking, books promoting Esoteric Nazism, and a recommendation to check out r/SaturnStormCube on reddit.

I actually agree that 18th century values are still applicable today, such as how Mike Johnson should be tarred and feathered.

Good. People have a fundamental light to housing, and a fundamental right to not be shoved into a tiny rat warren.

Yes, and ADHD has nothing to do with my answer. Don't work in food service unless you're a proper lunatic and have an incredibly high tolerance for being constantly shit on by people who wouldn't slow down if they ran you over.