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In their defense, most Catholics i know hate those kind of things too

there are songs i hear and go “man there is no way anyone actually listens to this” and then you hear it on the radio 300 times a day and the album is nominated for a grammy and there are fans who spend every dollar they have on merch and concert tickets to sold out stadiums of people who all love that song. and you wonder if maybe you’re the one who’s wrong but then you hear it again and decide that nope, you’re right and everyone else has lost their minds

I rarely go out to the movies anymore, but when I used to I'd roll up to the theater in july wearing my heavy winter coat, with deep pockets full of candy, beef jerkey, and usually a beer.

I used to sneak food when into the theater when I was younger with my family. It helped us save money. I do remember after 9/11 they would check your bag at the theater entrance. The official reason was to detect bombs, but I always felt it was an excuse for the theaters to stop people from sneaking in food.

I think part of the problem is that because he espouses left-leaning views people assumed him to be younger, not white, and not a man. They forget that there is nothing in the rule book that stops him from being a white middle aged guy from sommerset. White middle aged white men from sommerset can also be left-leaning.

Oh absolutely! Which is also hysterical because his espoused views are some of the most stereotypically white middle aged leftist dad views!

I thought because of that fact people would call him a sell out or something tbh. I have seen some people do that.

Too much alienation is a problem. But I think complete non-alienation would be a form of democratic totalitarianism—the kind which Berlin and Mill (rightly) fear. A little alienation is good. The issue is that utopias are always being imagined by people whose main hobby is politics and the result is something I can only regard as a vision of hell in which we are all touchy-feely and in some nebulous form of "community" with each other. Everyone's whole life becomes public. And the arguments in favor of privacy are always rather instrumental and it's fine to have such arguments. But I think they miss that what makes privacy so nice is that it's privacy! I want time and space all to myself. Anyone who's breathed a quiet sigh of relief when everyone else has left their house knows this. Increasingly everything is for everyone.