And here I was thinking it was one of those ways to fake having a big book collection to seem more intellectual.
There are eight Harry Potter books, that's the seventh book you have circled there.
Wonder how many trannies this guy has killed by liking Harry potter.
Not nearly enough.
The Potter Collector. That's exactly it isn't it.
Historians will look back on these great cultural touchstones like The Avengers, not because they are good but because they show how bad things are. Entertainment is meant to passify, it isn't a greak book that can give you many things, entertainment being only one of them. The amount of escapism provided in books simply isn't enough to block out the oppressive plastic existence. It needs to be loud and colorful; it needs to give the feeling that you're having a geniune experience where you are master of yourself, something that books can only provide so much of and especially can't be had in the world most people live in.
I've seen this bunch posted on the TikTok thread. How come modern day polygamy is always one chick and multiple dudes, and never the other way around? Is she taking advantage of their desperation? If so, that's... kind of sad honestly.
That's how they get away with it.
This is straight up bizarre. It looks like a repeating texture in a video game, I have literally looked at fake, computer generated bookshelves with the same vibe. I'm pretty sure that every single thing here is either a printing of a harry potter book or one of the spinoffs. The more I look at this the more confused I get.
I reacted on how she has so much stuff she doesn't like. She could sell it, I'm sure someone would love to have the Birkins and other stuff.
Pretty much, it's a strange situation where having standards is discouraged and so a lot of men will just bend over backwards for the first woman who gives them attention and promises them sex.
It's hard to really give a yes or no answer to such a question, what I would say is I'd be interested in a more in-depth study as to why these kinds of films are so culturally popular at this time. Every time periods popular film genres are usually in reaction to what's happening in society around that time, you can't just ascribe it to big companies pushing consoomers even if they are part of the audience, because the larger group is the casual viewer. It begs the question about what about these big spectacle films, along with just the best performing films that don't fall into that category, speak to people and make them go to see them. Something like that is also somewhat hard to do without the ability to look back on the bigger picture like you could do with looking at why certain films were popular in any earlier decade.
I don't think I'd be that pessimistic over the whole thing, especially in the whole "replacing mythology" aspect. Many of the popular films today still use tropes found in ancient mythology when it comes to character arcs or story tropes.
I've been to this secondhand record store in NYC that sells absolutely anything as long as it can still be played, and it really put this into perspective for me. I mean, for every pink floyd or David Bowie or funkadelic record you found, there were 1000 trashy novelty song, one hit wonder, or overdone Christmas albums from the 70s that you had to sort through.
Except now there's far more preservation efforts being made now that more people are getting into looking for "lost media".
Yes, it's actually quite amazing what people have been able to find through renewed efforts in finding "lost media" and how there's actually a growing 'boutique' physical media market that helps provide incentive for companies to fund or help with restorations. Films that most likely would have rotted away have ended up getting pretty great releases (often blu-ray world premieres) with brand new restorations. Boutique labels do attract a lot of consoomer types, especially during sale seasons where it's almost unbearable, so it can get a bit annoying at times all the whining that happens over non-issues.
I remember looking a bit into the release of the silent epic Napoleon with it receiving an all new restoration and the sheer level of dedication from Kevin Brownlow (the newest releases is credited as the Brownlow restoration) is amazing to read about. Man even wrote a book about everything he went through tracking down the fragments he could find scattered through various archives and private collections all because he became obsessed with tracking down the 'lost' film.