silas of trees

just had a cursed thought while reading Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid of Gender", specifically the bit when they mention Mannheim's "Ideology and Utopia" and had to write it out to exorcise it from my brain. probably will post more on this later.

i say timely as if this is applicable just to the present moment, but honestly this argument is evergreen

it's on Prime and you get the impression that they're very much like "okay, we'll take your money and make it into a thinly veiled communist manifesto masquerading as a surreal superhero thing"

i might have a longer take on it later but for now, if you have Prime, watch this

this video about tiktok and just general algorithmically driven art is pretty good, though i think the diagnosis of "we know we want more than sludge, deep down" is missing a couple angles of discussion from a more hard leftist perspective that could help buttress the argument. i might make a more detailed critique of this later to explain what i mean, but watch the video either way