People want to live in the economy of a colonial power and have the moral righteousness of a decolonial revolutionary.
What year did kids books start making predator and prey animal species friends, with no mention of what they eat etc?
I’ve consistently found that experiencing cultural things that are considered old, staid, boring you find that they’re always far stranger on dimensions of weirdness that aren’t considered important any more.
Le Carre x Monty Python Screenplay idea: The most talented MI5 spy of his generation is sent to Cambridge Univ. undercover to break a grand Chinese-Russian espionage ring. But his MI5 superior is a mole and deliberately undermines him by seeding increasingly ludicrous…
…newspaper interviews and academic papers under his cover name which he must defend. He fakes his own death and goes rogue to destroy his superior and bring down the spy ring.
The problem of contemporary academia is that we need deeply learned people to pass on knowledge and encourage scholarship but there’s just not much new stuff to research. In the humanities there are whole disciplines devoted to stuff that should be a footnote.
Wealthy patron required to kickstart a bookshop specializing in art, literature with a focus on the canon and its defenders, and that sells high quality power and hand tools from the best European makers. No financial return is to be expected.
Increasingly thinking that low fertility is a symptom of increasing lifespan, disrupting natural onflows of energy like a dam stopping salmon from spawning upstream.
Deep down, all the performative transgression and calls for destruction of everything good and true are a desperate plea for the assertion of authority, begging to be ruled justly and to be asked to contribute to a functional society.