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  I smoked a little too much weed and spiraled last night. It was triggered by a relatively minor series of events, I simply noticed that a LOT of smashers were having trouble with their flights both to and from Genesis, with delays and cancellations causing difficulty for tons of the people I follow. This observation can of course not be divorced from the numerous US plane crashes in the news lately, which is all pretty clearly being caused by President Trump’s absolute gutting of the FAA, with hundreds of flight traffic controllers being laid off. I really try to avoid thinking about federal politics whenever possible. I’ve realized over time that my influence over decisions made at that level is basically zero. I can vote every two years for congressional and sometimes presidential candidates, but living in Illinois means that a democratic candidate is going to win every single time in my state. I would vote D over R anyway, but that’s irrelevant. What matters is that I and my o...

This may not be as big of a hot button term these days, but for a long time it felt like every day you were hearing something about “Postmodernism”. Anime fans were using it to describe shows that they liked, and conservatives were using it in the same tone they now use the word “woke”. Similarly to woke, it was also rare to find anyone describing themselves as postmodernist.  Back when this term was more widely used, I would try to understand what this word meant and every source I found trying to explain it would tell you what it isn’t , but rarely what it is. I’ve read enough at this point that I feel like taking a crack at describing what this term means to me, and hopefully anyone who’s confused about the word can get a base understanding of what the fuck people are talking about. Even though it’s not a widely used word anymore, I think the reason for that is because its logic is so widely assimilated into our culture that it doesn’t feel like something distinct anymore. In ...