Thatcherism (of the “there is no such thing as society, just families and individual men and women” angle)

Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing

and as we are seeing in 2025, many middle class jobs are also effectively being demonetized - so men gravitate toward the place that do promise scalable wealth: gambling, AI, the manosphere...which are all kinda overlapping Venn diagrams.

The main thing the second edition tracks is the rise of the asset economy and the demonetization of musical labor (including the labor of resilience). Now that there really is no money in making music, it, like teaching, has become a pink collar job.

Hey pitch me this book

I did just use Sprints’ “Descartes” and their riff on “je pense, don’t je suis” into “Rene Descartes, fan of local media?”

(It was a big deal he wrote that in French rather than Latin)

I am so sorry for your loss.

Poptimism emerged precisely as formerly prestigious modern rock became Clear-Channeled into Nickleback and Creed…precisely the popular feminist and neoliberalism compliment to alt-rock-y popular misogyny and reaction