We're actually all just here to chill out and have fun with eachother. A lot of these rules we're supposed to care about are just about crowd sourcing a Skinner-box that a couple of assholes have leveraged to fill the yawning voids inside them with other people's stuff
the fact people without the England mental illness cared about Corbyn in a real way automatically made him evil, but the fact he's also capable of comprehending politics in a way unfiltered by England disease made him basically satan as far as the establishment cared
England defines itself mostly through suffering, so trying to do anything about that is seen as a sort of vile "ethnic" perversion. Politicians of course have to be real Englishmen who do Real things like driving the shittest German car & eating the cheapest curry Tesco sells
that cheap technology has given many more people access to versions of expensive and inaccessible tools is obviously good materially. but that commercial expressly emphasized, intentionally or not, the recent homogenization of those disciplines and the standards we expect from them, and their takeover by a handful of corporations who seem to want to sell you a fake, sanitized, and quite mediocre version of a real, weird, dangerous world, over and over until you forget what the original was like
that apple ad where they crush everything right. it was an abominable mistake on their part, it's given everyone a clear visual metaphor for what's wrong: smartphones can do everything, but as a jack-of-all-trades they can't do anything particularly well. whenever you're using a phone you're having a constant low-level, subliminal feeling of disappointment, a nagging feeling that if you were using the actual proper device to do the thing you want to do, you'd be having a better time
I used to make art for this site.
Helped a little with An Outcry, helping a little with Blanksword.
Starting to think I'm too disabled for real jobs, so let me know if you have a fake one that pays ok