2026... time to get serious about getting free

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

*visibly shaking* has anybody else noticed how beautiful everything is?

who needs enemies when you have your own brain

Also nothing seems that fun anymore

Like it’s all just hard work. The pressure to be good at things sucks all the fun out of everything. And the worst part is that no one else really gives a fuck whether I’m good at things or not, it’s just me making things up in my head.

And if you look up advice around this it’s all about discipline and forcing yourself to do things which just feels like another obligation.

So the solution, I guess, is what the solution usually is: I NEED TO CHILL THE FUCK OUT

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Also nothing seems that fun anymore

Like it’s all just hard work. The pressure to be good at things sucks all the fun out of everything. And the worst part is that no one else really gives a fuck whether I’m good at things or not, it’s just me making things up in my head.

And if you look up advice around this it’s all about discipline and forcing yourself to do things which just feels like another obligation.

Also nothing seems that fun anymore

Like it’s all just hard work. The pressure to be good at things sucks all the fun out of everything. And the worst part is that no one else really gives a fuck whether I’m good at things or not, it’s just me making things up in my head.

i need to have more fun im so young like what