me: the final verse of cats in the cradle ends with the father concluding his son is just as absent and neglectful as him, and this is how the song is usually interpreted and referenced in popular culture. However the reasons the son gives for not being able to visit include “the kids have the flu” showing that he is actually present in their lives and with the day to day tasks of parenting. He is not like his father. Rather than generational cycles repeating, the narrative is actually that the father remains as self centered as he always was, judging his son’s character solely by his treatment of him.

Vague posts are so funny tbh bc someone will be talking about their mailman and I’ll read it and always be like

“You think that you can judge what’s good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don’t mind me saying so. Brecht is always showing the temptation towards good as something that you have to withstand. If you go back into political theory, you can read the same thing in Machiavelli, and even in a certain sense in Kant. So Eichmann and many other people were very often tempted to do what we call good. They withstood it precisely because it was a temptation.”

“I’m coming over, you better not be Vintage American Girl Westie Coconut With Chariot And Tiara when I get there.”