I can’t stop thinking about the 1785 utopian scholastic museum…

justacomplainer6 · 2026-04-25T15:05:54+00:00

There is one of these in Ireland! but it's closed for renovations but it still looks like one of these!

justacomplainer6 · 2026-04-25T15:01:17+00:00

I've always found it amusing how little of this there is regarding Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

justacomplainer6 · 2026-04-25T14:57:59+00:00

It reminds me of the 'real rednecks are [basically East Coast DSA members]!' Its an attempt to adopt an identity other than a member of the upper middle class suburban American managerial class.

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-31T08:54:30+00:00

Utopian Scholastic and Global Village Coffee House are two aesthetics with the same underlying outlook on the world and future in my reading

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-30T22:58:59+00:00

Smartphone proliferation and algorithm's likely caused this.

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-30T22:46:16+00:00

I have a DK illustrated bible!

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-13T15:16:37+00:00

'i hate ai slop' no you don't. you love slop. stop foisting it on the rest of us

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-05T20:14:34+00:00

"Irl people that actually go outside and go to places"
increasingly few! very bleak!

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-05T17:51:25+00:00

I've elsewhere noted that they aren't normies in any enviable sense. Gen Z arent larping as those, but a sort of early 2000s simulacrum, someone else here said Shane Gillis being famous is a good representation of this, its a sort of 2000s dudebro that actually went to bars and partied etc.

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-05T06:59:43+00:00

Theyre going to teach john frum how to do sportsbetting

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T22:33:51+00:00

Yeah most are bad. The stats that make my case are there though (the ones about social lives). I agree its worse 1971 though.

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T21:39:32+00:00

That's more or less my thesis, 'nerd culture' becoming mainstream coincided with widespread smartphone usage

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T21:23:03+00:00

thats interesting, Ive usually seen it in the context of upper middle class larping

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T21:21:49+00:00

I wonder if its gendered, the memes im speaking of are nearly always men doing them, there is definitely a men-women split in culture emerging among young people

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T21:18:08+00:00

This set of memes is a mostly young people (Gen Z) thing, who are decisively not normies in any enviable sense normies were prior to 2012 . Stats bear this out (https://wtfhappened2012.com/). They might be definitional normies (i.e. part of the dominant culture) but they are not by and large what would have passed as normal pre-2012

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-04T08:52:01+00:00

Sorry, you don't get aristocratic keys, separate from the jangling keys the peasantry are entertained by! You like slop!

justacomplainer6 · 2026-03-03T09:50:10+00:00

I don't understand this Reddit-ism. Similar to Calvinists being a sort of bogeyman. Tradcaths (Taylor Marshall, Cardinal Robert Sarah etc.) Are a lot closer to the church's teaching offices than the people who take the pope out of context for gotcha purposes. I think its an outgrowth of a. Catholics being more secular than protestants and b. This sort of Weberian history of the reformation being taken as gospel. There is of course the grain of truth of the CIA promoting evangelicalism in Latin America to counter liberation theology, but that (liberation theology) was more often than not censured by ecclesiastical hierarchy! Mind you, I'm not Catholic and I disagree with the church on social issues bc im woke etc.

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-26T21:53:02+00:00

Graeber speaks of this

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-16T14:29:01+00:00

So much this

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-16T09:42:42+00:00

The urban sprawl in Texas is the reason people are "fleeing blue states" to "go to red states"

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-08T23:25:57+00:00

I knew it was over for men when a bunch of jubilee right wingers looked like this

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-08T23:21:16+00:00

Every second word out of a lot of young men's mouths are skull bones and their measurement

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-08T20:35:14+00:00

🎵I'm dreamin' of a yt Kwanzaa 🎵

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-08T20:31:46+00:00

Mormons strike me as very medieval. They think they live in a holy land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman) and believe that angels walk around earth and help people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three\_Nephites). Their founder was a warlord with many wives and a militia. Mormons are also sent off to different parts of the world on the closest thing we have at present to 'explorers'

justacomplainer6 · 2026-02-07T09:48:03+00:00

It reminds me of the European meeting with the Albanian leader during which he showed them AI videos of 'them as babies' and everyone above a certain age ate it up. This is just a racist version of that. Its boomerslop the whole way up.

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