Maybe I should have been more clear, but I’m talking about fiction or literary non-fiction. Men only being given a diet of self-help grindset book is part of the problem I’m worried about. Like, when I was in high school and college, you could be a “bro” kind of guy and read Chuck Palahniuk, or Hunter S. Thompson, or David Foster Wallace. For decades, authors like Hemmingway and Bukowski found receptive audiences in young men, not to mention all the crime fiction, horror, sci-fi, and fantasy that men have traditionally consumed. The “guy in your English class who loves David Foster Wallace” was a stereotype for a reason. But now it seems like younger men just straight up see no value in reading literature or fiction, because the algorithms just railroad them into Alpha Gridset world. Am I wrong about this?

Am I crazy for thinking that the only real culture young men are exposed to now are like variations of the Tom Cruise character from Magnolia?

I’m struggling how to articulate this, but I’m kind of terrified that the culture has been geared to killing or ignoring any idea of real male interiority to potentially catastrophic results. Reading anecdotes about how men don’t read or buy books anymore, even books that are traditionally geared towards men, and how college literature classes have no young men taking them. Is it just nothing for men but video games and Rogan knock-off grindset streamers from now on?

The Biden administration represented an experiment in Actually Existing Scoop Jacksonism.

Please just remove it, there’s no way it’s real. There’s just no way a person living in the first half of the nineteenth century with as powerful a command of the English language as Mary Shelley would be quoted saying something as blunt and dull as “you have to read and think a lot,” not to mention that it sounds downright anachronistic. I’m not even sure the terms “left wing” and “right wing” would have been in common parlance during her life.

Plus the picture of her face is completely wrong. The whole thing, from the quote to the picture, looks AI generated.

Edit: Also, it’s just not fucking true! There are plenty of right wingers who read and think a lot! This is pissing me off so much

Extremely fake quote

Sock it to ME???

waow

Sridhar is a master of this.

If you think Khruschev was bad, you should dig into Gorbachev and read Vladislav Zubok’s Collapse. Just page after page of a deluded man making the stupidest decisions possible and no one stopping him for reasons that are hard to wrap your mind around.

I got this from here: https://x.com/mrpyo1/status/1838711130660712784

You know, snuggle themed video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2dzxaSDpk&ab_channel=TheDodo

Honestly, Tolkien would probably approve.

LMAO

Happy birthday

Look up Mark Robinson, the guy running for governor of North Carolina

My comment from the mega:

It took some doing but I actually feel bad for Cheryl Hines now. Just nonstop Ls.

Also, this is an amazing day for funny scandals

Yes