This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy

This is a good post.

The "curtains are blue" is not a failure of media literacy exactly, it's worse, it's a failure to grasp the premise of media literacy.

It's not a failure to correctly or reasonably interpret a symbol, it's a rejection that symbols exist as things to be understood.

It belongs to a disturbing 2003 ish trend to dismiss so much philosophy, poetry, theology, and the arts as vacuous nonsense, usually in favour of 'scientific' and atheist discourse which is framed, by comparison as realistic, manly, intelligent, and sensible.

I think it was perhaps one of the earliest iterations of the Gamergate, Jordan Peterson, Tate culture - encouraging young men to believe all that what they didn't understand, they didn't understand because there was nothing to be understood. That all the arts are simply foolishness. Simultaneously, it told them that every self-flattering fantasy was secretly a great truth (but usually suppressed or hated by secret societies and women).

'Taylor Swift is gay' is a similar departure from reality but indeed in the opposite direction. Instead of the "nothing means anything" rejection of art, we have "anything means anything". More specifically "anything means anything I want it to mean". It is an equally nihilistic approach to art - total and wilful ignorance or disregard of the artist, but using their art only as a testifying evidence of the nihilist's fantasies and ideology.

It's interesting that this spectrum is described as media literacy. I think it is a literacy issue but I find something niggling about it.

The illiterate cannot read and therefore cannot understand. This strain of people though, this .. second-wave internet culture is not seeking to understand. It martials and subdues all it sees in service of a belief. It is to ingest and consume all it sees and, no matter what it is, no matter what it says, it is used to support their single-minded worldview.

They both burn the library of Alexandria. One because there was nothing of value in the books within. The other because we already knew all they were telling us.

It is meta-modernist fanaticism.

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One of my favorite tiktok niches that was created by people so bored they’re barely alive is that there’s a whole diet soda community where they believe everything you do greatly effects the way diet soda tastes and there are very specific methods of serving it to make sure you get the right flavor as if it’s an expensive steak or something. but the best part is they believe how long you leave it in the fridge is the most important part in all of it, which they call, “marinating”

i checked this out because i found it almost impossible to believe but its true at least for this one lady

season five a perfect season of tv and yet ultimately a dry run for the absolute divine suffering of season six’s storytelling. late btvs i love you i’m sorry so few people Got It.

Rock Hudson and James Dean photographed by Richard C. Miller, on the set of Giant, 1955

one of the reasons i have more patience & affection for spuffy than for other m/f enemies-to-lovers ships in a similar mold is that buffy is under no illusion that she can fix that man. in fact she believes he is ontologically incapable of being fixed. he'll be like Buffy i can change and she'll be like You are literally not capable of doing that. then he actually does change and she's like. Wait you can do that??? Not sure how i feel about that to be honest

VELVET GOLDMINE dir. Todd Haynes, 1998 Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade costume design by Sandy Powell

"XYZ would kill a Medieval peasant" please read The Canterbury Tales. The average Medieval peasant is up to things you never even imagined.

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

This is a truly remarkable bit of copy, from the widow of the man killed at Trump’s rally last weekend.

gillian anderson at the oscars (2001)

this is my favorite addition by a mile. I am now glad that I made this post

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he has a 100% divorce rate btw