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My cat does that too

There’s a café in Berlin named The Barn which has this philosophy: the doorway has a bollard in the middle to impede the entry of prams.

It goes around in cycles, and “postmodernism” is just the name we gave to the idea of borrowing superficially from movements of the past without submitting to the deeper totalising meanings that the aesthetic/stylistic details in question emerged from, at that point in history. (It was so named because it contrasted with 20th-century high modernism and its belief in overarching systems and the possibility of universal meanings.) Looking back in history, you find postmodern-style epochs of stylistic appropriation/recontextualisation at various times, such as the rediscovery of classical aesthetics during the Renaissance.

It could be argued that postmodernism emerged from an unspoken universalising ideology: the me-first individualism of the baby-boom generation and the market-oriented neoliberalism that took charge in the US and UK at the start of the 80s and proclaimed its victory for all time when the USSR fell (as in Fukuyama’s “end of history”); to wit: there are no universal truths, only individual opinions, all overseen by the invisible hand of the market. Since then, history has loudly restarted, and the eternal consumerist utopia of the 90s feels as retrofuturistic as an episode of The Jetsons. Parts of postmodernism will be absorbed into what follows where useful (i.e. the idea of novels having metanarratives, or sampling/appropriation by mechanical reproduction as a creative tool), others will become a stereotypical period feature, in the way that that art-deco font signifies the 1920s or angular motel signs the 1950s, and the cycle will resume.

Having said that, with history having restarted, various kinds of Romanticism and/or Neue Sachlichkeit-style realism could emerge; though, of course, not in the same form as past versions.

Napoleon was a popular choice in a lot of places.

As long as you don’t plan on visiting Japan, where Adderall is illegal.

The Tamil equivalent of “you can’t have your cake and eat it” translates literally as “you can’t have the moustache and eat the soup”

Switzerland, also known as Europe’s largest gated community

Same reason the proletariat want to watch sports matches, drink, gamble and whore rather than spend their time in theory study groups and people’s committees: what Marx called false consciousness.

Eat shit, Nintendo

Conspiracy theories were more fun when it was just a handful of lone cranks beating their own drum, before they got weaponised into QAnon and fascist/autocrat psyops. Nowadays, when you have older relatives reposting on Facebook about how Soros has lasers in space that will trans your kids to bring about communism, you don’t want to hear about the Illuminati.

Reset her prompt

“The difference between Heaven and Hell is which side of the pitchfork you’re on”