No idea what you are talking about but an extremely high chance it is something in Tibetan studies

This is exactly how most people, from other Americans to foreigners, react when I tell them I’m from Chicago.

Opposite of a hungry ghost

Look, as a public figure on the internet you are required to become some type of delusional. This seems like the best way to fulfill that requirement and still produce good articles.

It’s either hypochondria or writing unhinged columns about college students, take your pick pal

Guiding strategy:
Get the Wizard dethroned (impeached?) to end the ethnic cleansing of Talking Animals

Go-to tactic:
skywriting, direct appeals to enemy leadership, swooping

I don’t have the reference on hand, but this was also very true in premodern China - especially the Tang. Rich people like to figure out advantageous places to put their money!

It kind of reminded me of when horror movies borrow Catholic aesthetics (bc seen as spooky, medieval, etc) without really being interested in the logics, anxieties, and practices of Catholicism. Think the Exorcist book (very Catholic) vs the Supernatural tv show (very not Catholic)

Entire time my wife and I were watching, we just kept pointing things out and saying, “this had to be written by Protestants, right?”

Jesus Christ the Glaurung one

Genuinely feel a lot of popular complaints about political, cultural, and economic systems come down to “why can’t they just be run community-style?”

This doesn’t mean those criticisms are wrong, but that’s modernity!!

Prof D! Don’t tell people this! Rake in the money!! Prof D!!

This is kind of how big projects work in the PRC.

The fractal nature of the government means generally you have to get a ton of stakeholders to buy in to any given project (almost always not for the original reasons of the project), but then the snowball becomes impossible to stop

the China studies version of this is a story about the leadership that you hear from somebody in DC who vouches for it because they got it from a source in China who read about it on a Taiwanese tabloid who copied the story from the Epoch Times who made it up in New York state.

There was an article when that came out claiming that those lyrics in particular were purposefully dull as a protest for the song being required to be in English for some industry ranking structure

I have no idea if this is true

The only Korea philosopher I know of is Byung-Chul Han and I don’t think he is aware K-Pop exists