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February 19 - February 20, 2021
The red-haired instructress with the MBA agrees: “Feminism is wrong. Why should a woman kill herself at a job? That’s a man’s role. It’s up to us to perfect ourselves as women.”
Yikes!
This isn’t a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends.
The flip side of triumphant cynicism, of the ideology of endless shape-shifting, is despair.
A girl goes by, dressed in heels, a bikini, and a dust mask. It’s that hot. And then more and more people emerge and disappear back into the smoke:
What a creepy image! Made even more disturbing because the author actually witnessed it. I imagine similar scenes occurring in California due to the massive wildfires.
during the final decades of the USSR no one believed in communism and yet carried on living as if they did, and now they can only create a society of simulations.
the Kremlin has finally mastered the art of fusing reality TV and authoritarianism to keep the great, 140-million-strong population entertained, distracted, constantly exposed to geopolitical nightmares,
