Bored and Distracted

There's a fascinating complex at work here that I do not have the words or knowledge to fully describe, but where people feel this pathological need to justify liking mass-market fiction. You don't need to, everyone likes it. That's why it sells.

y’all pls u this vid fucks so hard

Sleep well Marjane Satrapi. You were a huge influence on me and my work in a way that cannot be understated. You will be missed but your work will carry on for generations to come

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

The first Nolan movie Pattinson signed on for was Tenet which straight up had the protagonist--literally a character named Protagonist--say "I'm the Protagonist."