“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • 70/80’s were a period of time right after the civil rights movement, so they had to acknowledge racism existence as material. 90/00’s try and pretend that they live in a post racial landscape while the world still very structurally racist (I mean look at Clinton and the crime bill for the quintessential example).

    If you were closer to the civil rights movement you had to engage with the fact that racism was real, and mockery contempt, absurdist, reductionist approaches work well for that









  • I think at its roots its like, you have to be willing to consider things first. You have to start with a willingness to believe.

    Or at least thats Mulders MO in the show.

    Scully is the scientist, the hard nosed skeptic.

    If you haven’t watched the show, it actually has aged decently, if its a bit campy.