The Chair Company is like if Severance was funny but also less conclusive and somehow more strange and alienating for the viewer

"If he wins, the man who once rejected constraint becomes, for himself as well as for others, like those whom he once fought against and who constrained him."

-- Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil p. 136

Capitalism is a mode of production, not consumption. "Conusmerism" would have almost nothing to do with capitalism if not for the enthusiastic encouragement of commodity production. Consumption happens as a byproduct of being alive -- every economic system imaginable will cater to consumption

What if the Zohran/Trump meeting went so well because Zohran was the first openly socialist person Trump had ever met in his life -- like, what if it was Trump's first non-ideological encounter with a really-existing socialist

"Paradoxically, it is precisely [anarchism's] failure to consistently elucidate an ethics that has been the ethical move par excellence."

- Duane Rousselle, After Post-Anarchism, p. 263

Listening to an album hits different when the band reformed from a 10 year hiatus to play it all the way through in a different city you could maybe make it out to, but like only maybe