[litany against reactionary thinking] throughout all of human history the majority of art has been kind of trash that reflects a lot of common impulses and thought patterns that the general populace have and is not an indicator of some great advent of moral or intellectual failure unique to our current time.
like every day i have to go into work and see fifty different books with descriptions like "55 year old cowboy dad sexually takes advantage of a 19-year old recent college grad who works for him and is friends with his daughter" branded as a cute and quirky romance novel and it makes me throw up a little every time. but it isnt creating these desires so much as reflecting them. that being said you are still freely allowed to be a hater about both the book and absolutely the societal forces behind them. and i will!













