#brutan

[wormed-woman]

the pacing in the 1980 astro boy was something else

[yes-lukewinter]

The strange mood of our time where nothing really makes any coherent sense. We live with a constant vaudeville of contradictory stories that makes it impossible for any real opposition to emerge. Because they can’t counter it with a coherent narrative of their own. It means that we as individuals become ever more powerless. Unable to challenge anything, because we live in a state of confusion and uncertainty. 

Adam Curtis, Shorts: Oh Dearism II

[yes-lukewinter]

I look at England in 2021 and I do not see a hateful, animalistic place. I see a deeply and deliberately divided country treated with grubby disdain by its politicians: stripped of pride and aspiration and personal investment and simple joy. And so, for all the ominous auguries, perhaps it is little surprise that when its football team loses a major final, it does not go on the tear. It simply sighs, goes home and waits patiently for its next buzz.

Jonathan Liew England’s repressed craving for shared experience reveals its ugly side | England | The Guardian