"But, of course, Ring presents itself as more than just the surveillance arm of a multibillion dollar corporation deployed to your front door. It hijacks the human need for security or safety and transmutes it into a need for Ring. It is chiefly the needs of Amazon that are being met, particularly given the way that Ring allows Amazon to also profit from partnerships with police departments."
> loneliness, alienation, and superfluousness, which, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she identifies as ideal conditions for the emergence of totalitarian regimes
There is a scene in #FightClub where the protagonists (so to speak) threaten to kill a clerk and then let him go. Their takeaway is that tomorrow will be the best day of that person's life.
This logic holds up as long as you don't know anything about how people work. In reality it is more likely that person will just be dealing with PTSD. I am not claiming the filmmakers didn't understand this but I am sure a lot of the movie's fans have no clue.
#BREAKING#SupremeCourt adopted binding code of conduct for the first time, responding to a stream of ethics controversies that have undercut its public standing and shined new light on the justices’ friendships and financial dealings.
The high court has been under pressure for months to act amid the revelations, which included reports that Justice Thomas received lavish vacations, private jet flights and other gifts funded by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow #SCOTUS
I just discovered a couple of bruises on my left arm and I don’t know what caused them.
Your guess is as good as mine (probably better, actually) #FightClub
I’m afraid that if you read what Palahniuk and Fincher say about #FightClub, it very much supports the black-pilled, macho anti-feminism that its most fervent fans love.
If in fact it is a cautionary tale about fascism it is very badly executed, and frankly everyone involved was too talented for that.
I’d put in the same class as Taxi Driver. Travis Bickle is Paul Schrader’s Calvinist disgust at modern urban society and becomes a toxic masculine cultural icon because of that.
“We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman [the Narrator] is created.”