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it really doesn't seem like actors today learn to pretend how to be someone else. instead, what they learn (& get very good at), is how to display unspoken thoughts on their face (which is not how real people actually behave)
Why artists so often end up communists: 1. They make pure public goods. 2. They only make money due to a legal kluge to fit art into the market. (Copyright) 3. They would do it on their own regardless. 4. The work they do on their own is better than what the market asks them for.
There’s a reason you ain’t ever used your phone in a dream
here he is reading the excerpt about commodity fetishism at some event or another, it's one of my favorite things anyone's written about marx ever.
Wallace Shawn is trending, so it's a great time to read The Fever. It's a beautifully written monologue of the experience of being in the intelligentsia/middle class of the imperial core, and coming to terms with what that means for your way of life. Listen to an audiobook.
I wrote a thing about 2001: A Space Odyssey. Basically how if you watch it right it’s not about aliens at all but something far more deadly and inhumane: spending too much time looking at screens Kubrick tried to warn us londongraphicnovelnetwork.com/2025/08/08/bra…
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I have a lot of soul-crushing thoughts, but the one that keeps me up at night is the idea I’ve wasted my life by taking the written word seriously in a post-literate society.
David Foster Wallace. “In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”
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Nothing is complicated. What’s happening is the worst people on earth are focused exclusively on trying to get richer by any means necessary and don’t give a fuck about you.
This might be one of the best descriptions of the film writing process I’ve ever come across, and it was written by James Cameron.
a right-wing host asks union leader Eddie Dempsey if workers are "being greedy" for going on strike for a pay rise. Here is his response:
What Lewis is saying here is one of the most glaringly apparent and obviously correct takes of them all, and it’s the first time I recall e.g. the disastrous wars and the financial crisis being addressed in the same breath. And we haven’t even included e.g. austerity.
"The Iraq war, the financial crisis, COVID - plenty of times where experts have created the space to allow people to fill this vacuum." The News Agents ask: Are people less trusting of institutions today - and why? @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvLKl… Anyone else getting Crossed +100 vibes from this? (That’s a good thing) 💀
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