And then I think that I am the one who doesn't get it. It's all about distribution, of course. Which is why these posts are read by maybe a handful. All the others are just happily doing something else after they opened and closed their fediverse app for a few minutes until they felt pleasantly bored by it again...
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The gated empires of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter are so weird. Someone shares a link, it takes ages to load, only to show me a big login screen without which I cannot read it. Every time I would feel anger if I weren't so confused. Why are people doing this? Why are people sharing their insights or lives like this? Don't they know the internet is so much more than that?
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The way and speed with which children learn is so fascinating. L loves her solids, so for a while she greeted them with the enthusiasm of a helicopter, both arms gyrating, both hands grasping, leaving nothing much on the spoon she pulled towards her open mouth.
Then last Sunday we were at a children birthday party, baffled by a baby boy one month older who was fed without even a napkin to tame the spoils.
A day later, we didn't need napkins anymore, either. Seeing it once was enough.
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I'm lucky that I only get sick enough to stay in bed about once every year or two. It always humbles me. All the little frustrations and tensions in my everyday-life quickly become meaningless. "I'm feel lazy to go running." "I cannot get myself to do taxes today." "I'm not really in the mood to see people." All that sounds hilarious if you just... can't.
Makes me empathize much more with the old lady in the streets and the random long-covid reply guy in the internets.
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First time my wife and I fell ill since the birth of baby L. I can now imagine what horrors people have went through when they say "the whole family has been ill, it was awful."
Luckily my wife and I took turns and the little one made it through without catching our cold. It's tough enough to care for your two loved ones while you feel slightly under water yourself, I wouldn't want to know what it's like while being Really Sick myself and so is the baby.
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Third day of having a bad cold. It's an uncommon feeling to long towards the hours when I can go to sleep again, whereas it's usually the other way round.
Most of all I'm grateful. Grateful that I don't have to schlepp myself to work like this. Grateful for not being alone. Grateful for my wife to care for me. Grateful for having a room I can escape to so that I hopefully don't infect her.
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[#]LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
★★★☆☆ | Isabella Eklöf, Holiday
The sexy blond and the gangster. Disturbingly ruthless, disturbingly meaningless. And rightly so.
★★★☆☆ | Magnus von Horn, Sweat (2020)
Three days of a fitness influencer. It's a job, baby.
★★★★☆ | Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin (2024)
How flashy cinematography makes you fall in love with the bad guys, example No 317.
★★★★☆ | Hirokazu Koreeda, Monster (2023)
The monster is other people. So what if you switch perspective?
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★★★☆☆ | Isabella Eklöf, Holiday
Sascha, a pretty young blonde gets involved with a gangster. It's a Faustian deal she is not prepared for. But she learns fast...
Eklöf's Holiday is a fascinating film, ruthless, violent. It's strength lies in its missing elegance, or rather, in showcasing the missing elegance of its characters. I like to understand Holiday as a milieu study, a study of brazen proles and worse. Or rather, a film about what it means to be a women around brazen proles.
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Oh - and getting back to the first point: All the chaos will be about weakness, not strengths. And I think a theory of weakness will be important to create a better Discourse™ than "Fascism 2.0". Not because that's a wrong framing necessarily, but because it's a bad political framing, and it'll be more important to be pragmatic rather than ideological. (And "truth" will be mostly in the second category, unfortunately).
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There is a funny dynamic in that his skills and weaknesses are so profound that no-one (think oligarchy/senators) was really capable of getting past him in term of demagoguery but everyone thought they'll be able to bypass him once the mandate is cast so it'd be back again to insiders.
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In a sad way I think that—ignoring grievances and deep character flaws—Trump's intuition is more aligned with the working class than that of the general GOP billionaire establishment. Yet, his life-long fight against "the system" has made him so redemptive that there is no upside left in that sentence.
There is an actual, important, and "good" realignment in politics. Trump sensed it first. Yet he also captured the momentum for almost purely personal gains so much of the potential will be lost.
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I think more and more that analysts of US politics need a theory of weakness. Trump was never a strong candidate - for better or worse. His superpowers are (1) an intuition that allowed him to spider-sense general economical and vibe-trends a few years before anyone else and (2) a brashness that allows him to just ride the wave even though it died a few times in-between. These are amazing superpowers, but apart from them he lacks most of the basic skills usually necessary for higher office.
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Personally I think that the real intellectual challenge will be to try to make sense of that, whatever it is, even though it's coming from "the enemy camp", even though there's going to be much chaos coming from all around it, even though it'll be the wrong folks who'll be calling dibs on it.
There's a there there. Deep underneath the ugliness and noise.
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In a sad way I think that—ignoring grievances and deep character flaws—Trump's intuition is more aligned with the working class than that of the general GOP billionaire establishment. Yet, his life-long fight against "the system" has made him so redemptive that there is no upside left in that sentence.
There is an actual, important, and "good" realignment in politics. Trump sensed it first. Yet he also captured the momentum for almost purely personal gains so much of the potential will be lost.
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This is how I understand his appointments to the posts that really are about political power (think DOJ). The game for him is about bypassing the senate (basically a big business club), the game of the GOP establishment about cutting off real power from a presidency that's otherwise mostly about the show, splashy executive orders with real harm for minorities but of less significance GDP-wise.
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This is how I understand his appointments to the posts that really are about political power (think DOJ). The game for him is about bypassing the senate (basically a big business club), the game of the GOP establishment about cutting off real power from a presidency that's otherwise mostly about the show, splashy executive orders with real harm for minorities but of less significance GDP-wise.
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Much of the bickering about cabinet posts is about the fight between him and a party that's still not aligned with his intuition. An intuition that is 80% driven by grievances. And yet the other 20% point to something that's true and important to try to figure out among all the noise and second-order chaos coming up in the next 4 years.
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There is a funny dynamic in that his skills and weaknesses are so profound that no-one (think oligarchy/senators) was really capable of getting past him in term of demagoguery but everyone thought they'll be able to bypass him once the mandate is cast so it'd be back again to insiders.
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I think more and more that analysts of US politics need a theory of weakness. Trump was never a strong candidate - for better or worse. His superpowers are (1) an intuition that allowed him to spider-sense general economical and vibe-trends a few years before anyone else and (2) a brashness that allows him to just ride the wave even though it died a few times in-between. These are amazing superpowers, but apart from them he lacks most of the basic skills usually necessary for higher office.
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★★★☆☆ | Danny Boyle, T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Sometimes in life it feels like there are some threads you have to pick up and do something with. They are reaching back to a time that might better be forgotten but can't. Closure then is too high an ideal. And yet the work is the work. The movie itself and the fact that it was made feels like this.
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