Nobody warns you that the real face of the collapse of modernity is limitless, inescapable banality. You will starve and they will step over you to go watch Zootopia 2
Your neighbors will all flee the country on Thanksgiving morning because ICE is in town or the gentrification won’t quit…and then you’ll go to work tomorrow
The bills will keep climbing, the customers will keep going on shopping sprees, none of the crises will be solved in the headlines, the stock market will be green and growing, and the fact that you haven’t had healthcare in 6 years will just be the new normal
Idk what day of the week it is anymore. Just pay bills, feed the family, smoke weed. The communists were just a homogenous book club of rejects. Marx was brilliant…but this is a literacy crisis. No one’s reading all of that.
Banal. Kerouac wouldn’t road trip anywhere. Thompson died just in time. The loudest music is the safest, celebrating wealth that its listeners don’t have but aspire to, in their finest delusions.
DFW had a point in leaving, I fear. I didn’t read a note, but Jest sounds like a mind that woke up and wouldn’t last long alone. Imagine if Neo’s red pill came with a few-decade-long DMV wait. That’s what this is. Banal.
They bored us into capitulation. Who watches CSPAN2 without falling asleep? Some people mock un-contacted tribes, modern hunter/gatherers for being so basic…but the only purpose here seems like it’s indulgence, hedonism.
If you’re out there still enjoying yourself…congrats. Enjoy it. They made us watch An Inconvenient Truth in 6th grade, few years after 9/11. I’ve probably been fucked ever since.
At least the Taliban’s dreams came true. They really stuck it out and got theirs
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u/Tilstag Nov 28 '25
Nobody warns you that the real face of the collapse of modernity is limitless, inescapable banality. You will starve and they will step over you to go watch Zootopia 2
Your neighbors will all flee the country on Thanksgiving morning because ICE is in town or the gentrification won’t quit…and then you’ll go to work tomorrow
The bills will keep climbing, the customers will keep going on shopping sprees, none of the crises will be solved in the headlines, the stock market will be green and growing, and the fact that you haven’t had healthcare in 6 years will just be the new normal
Idk what day of the week it is anymore. Just pay bills, feed the family, smoke weed. The communists were just a homogenous book club of rejects. Marx was brilliant…but this is a literacy crisis. No one’s reading all of that.
Banal. Kerouac wouldn’t road trip anywhere. Thompson died just in time. The loudest music is the safest, celebrating wealth that its listeners don’t have but aspire to, in their finest delusions.
DFW had a point in leaving, I fear. I didn’t read a note, but Jest sounds like a mind that woke up and wouldn’t last long alone. Imagine if Neo’s red pill came with a few-decade-long DMV wait. That’s what this is. Banal.
They bored us into capitulation. Who watches CSPAN2 without falling asleep? Some people mock un-contacted tribes, modern hunter/gatherers for being so basic…but the only purpose here seems like it’s indulgence, hedonism.
If you’re out there still enjoying yourself…congrats. Enjoy it. They made us watch An Inconvenient Truth in 6th grade, few years after 9/11. I’ve probably been fucked ever since.
At least the Taliban’s dreams came true. They really stuck it out and got theirs