"And believe it or not, Deadpool 2 is a family film. True story. And every big family film starts... with a vicious murder. Bambi, The Lion King, Saw 7." --Deadpool, Deadpool 2
Postmodernism is a central topic around these parts. Understanding postmodernism is…
The Spectre of Nationalism
This was a Tweet from Richard Dawkins on March 30th, 2019:
National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler, American pride gave us Trump, British pride gave us Brexit. If you must have pride…
Every day brings another in a barrage of pieces critiquing the (mostly online) left-wing social activist culture. Things like safe spaces, trigger warnings, call outs are in for heavy attack.
The main line of attack is to source them in some way as the inevitable result of flaws in the various…
The Red Pill. Everyone remembers Morpheus offering Neo the choice of the red pill which will "show him how far this rabbit hole goes." Only as it turns out later in the films it doesn't quite work out that way.
This misremembering would simply be an interesting cinematic footnote to…
[Note to the Reader: This piece is going to be very multi-layered. It's a very complex argument with multiple pieces. It's also something I'm stretching into mentally. It's by no means a fully worked out thesis. So please consider it in that exploratory light.]
In this piece I…
In this piece I want to explore a couple of recent dystopias that have come out that I think are a major distraction from the real dystopia conversation we should be having (i.e. the one we're living under). One is the recent HBO film adaptation of the novel Fahrenheit 451, the other is…
On June 30th, 2018, Time magazine put out an article entitled 'The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet'. It's nineteenth entry was 'Q', an anonymous poster on the website 8Chan. This mention of…
I am large. I contain multitudes. —Walt Whitman
Merriam Webster's page on the singular they is actually quite thoughtful and well balanced:
"We will note that they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of …
