stop

something about the obvious lack of a foul on that goal by Nico, something about trump encouraging fifa to overturn balogun's red card and them complying, something about all of the obvious meddling in this world cup putting a sour taste in my mouth about the sanctity of the sport but what can you do

its always "ferran torres looks so good" and "ferran torres is so fit" and never "what a goal by ferran torres"

fair play

an argentina player tried to fight FUCKING GAVI??????????

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

carlos waxed and ready for this 😭