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not ss'ing or replying to the post that prompted this bc it literally doesn't matter that much but flint's "[i can't believe that we are] incapable of surviving in the state to which we are born" formulation is like the most classic 18th century european "natural rights" way of being progressive that i can think of. people are born free and everywhere they are in chains etc. i know rousseau was a baby then but the idea wasn't really new Montaigne Speaks Of This. his cannibalism essay is spiritually a black sails intertext

it's especially tragic that it's during this very moment of imagining that the world and humanity *can* be made new that flint fails to articulate a vision of that world that is not dependent on the flawed theories of enlightenment thinkers. the dead cannot bury their dead the revolution cannot arrive at its own content and the tradition of all the dead generations continues to weigh like a nightmare on the brains of the living

wheres the cocteau twins summer tweet

We Are All Blocked By Mutual In Laws

pirates of the caribbean 6 is gonna have the skin-taker in it trust