Proposed: we really did lose something with the 80s-90s “Listening to Prozac” rise of antidepressants taking away a lot of depression-mediated art, because even if the artists did create equivalent, more, or better art without depression their art was no longer drawing so deeply from agony and despair and for lack of that product the culture features those themes less and thus fails to productively contextualize them for the benefit of non-pathological citizens who may be expected to encounter them on occasion
Unsure in what combination the change draws on the last few years’ experience of a more arm’s-length relationship to reality or just the maturity of turning 40 but these days even when I do engage with something I once would have directly struggled against I’m more likely to just influence something in the background such that if someone did struggle against it in a way useful to me they’d have an advantage, and maybe establish some tells to this effect, and leave it for someone else
From finally getting past Kemalists to the Prime Ministership in 2003 when Dubya was trying to encourage wider popular bases among Muslim world allies to extracting international concessions for allowing Baltic NATO membership in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, I continue to think Erdogan is probably the biggest winner of American post-9/11 geopolitics
Badger and I trying out a new modus vivendi this season where he’s always lazing on the stoop but when I come through from either direction he just moves to the side for a while
“It is very much a conscious thing to do it Right…”?
Yeah. In elementary school they gave me “orthotics”, which were like inserts for the shoes, to deal with it somehow, they got made fun of and were uncomfortable and I wore on the understanding they would fix things eventually but after years I was like “so when can I stop wearing these?” and they were like no wearing them is the treatment, like glasses, and I was like then fuck this, it is not in fact making my life any better. So I am a little wary of in situ treatments.
