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“coming of age” books and movies are so stupid like being a teenager isn’t about having sex and going to parties it’s about staring out your car window after hanging out with your old best friends who you haven’t seen in months and realizing that you aren’t actually friends anymore and that your childhood has been well and truly dead since you were thirteen

[ID: Set of photos of Brennan Mulligan of College Humor speaking into a microphone. The captions read, “People are not motivated by ideological codes. People are motivated by impulse, and construct ideological codes to justify and rationalize what they were already going to do.  An old professor of mine had this great thing. He said, “On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology.” Meaning before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole.” End ID]