2026-09-28 04:50 UTC
Replies (7)
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@victorz@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 04:55
That is all one sentence isn’t it
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 05:21
I mean I think this run-on sentence is demoni- I mean, problematic.
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@imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 05:31
Demons, well known for caring about the environment and equitable civil rights
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@wuffah@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 05:42
Leftist mysticism notwithstanding, I’ll take pseudoscience over raw religious absurdity any day. At least the ideas seem relatable to real concepts, like techno-babble. God is such an intentionally broad and purposefully mysterious concept so as to be essentially unknowable.
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@theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2026-09-28 05:52
Protestant thought patterns.
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@Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 13:03
I’ve been having an internal crisis this year that I feel is relevant to part if this. I’ve spent my whole life dedicated to the idea that you can appreciate art in spite of the artist. My favorite author is Lovecraft, his long winded style with a mix of fluttering anxiety and dry academia is deeply relatable to me and while I understand the extreme xenophobia of his beliefs are foundational to how he conveys the horror of his writing, I find it hard to actually see that in the minds eye. When I read about a lost civilization of gorilla people in Africa and the man that took one as his wife, it’s not a coded fear of finding out you’re actually part black, it’s finding out your grandma was banging Gorilla Grod and that’s why you have this much hair. I was content with this. One can find meaning in art without agreeing with the artist. I’d even go as far as to say we should engage with art like this. A tree without the thrashing of the breeze does not have the roots to support its lofty reach. Like the tree, we must have our convictions and views tested to break those that don’t serve us and strengthen those that do, lest we find ourselves in the ire of this image’s creator as someone who condemns an art for daring to tax our roots. However, even the taproot of this belief strains under the weight of the gales that are the Epstein situation. So much of the media that I once championed for daring to depict what I read as benal inclusion are shadowed in doubt now. Everyone knows the scene from IT, but when I read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by King, I found it’s inclusion of bathroom activities added to the realism. Shitting your guts out because you drank raw stream water isn’t often detailed in survival stories. Knowing now that King was on the island, the details description of how to piss in the woods as a 12 year old girl, or the cooling comfort of washing her ass in the stream after her explosive ordeal, I have to question whether it’s there for realism or there because he couldn’t justify a gang rape of this character like he could in IT. It doesn’t stop there. Actors, directors, painters, writers, TV producers, animators, Evey time I take a closer look I find the rebel that dared was not making a bold assertion against the status quo, they were just using their position to make more pornography for themselves. Kricfalusi wasn’t making a statement with Ren and Stimpy, he was half assing a cartoon while extorting two teenagers into being sex pets. Nickelodeon knew, they didn’t care because most of the people responsible for my childhood were using their positions to fuck the children I looked up to. Bakshi didn’t care when he hired Kricfalusi either and now I have to wonder if Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic are the bold critiques of societal wrong or just a fury porno and racism pretending to be intellectuals. At some point, I think we do have to draw a line, and the more I uncover, the more I find that it would have been justified to put down the media when I felt icky about it.
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@nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2026-09-29 03:49
This meme format can go right back where it came from.