Sorry about your daughter.

I didn’t think my point needed a “history of music” lesson attached. The rock bands of the 60s were taking the experiments of swing and blues musicians from the decade prior and refining them into the aggressive, over-driven and distorted arrangements. Not “rock & roll”.

I think the book and movie work best as companion pieces. Experience both, either order works but I prefer the film first for the spectacle and mystery.

Also known as “the Seinfeld effect”.

The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, these guys were inventing the sound of rock. I think they’re fantastic musicians. But Rush and Pink Floyd stand out more to me as timeless art.

More likely than the average Joe but guiding, like teaching or storytelling, is a distinct skill. Lots of people are totally blind to their own biases and the hypothetical 4 hour opera without context would definitely make me doubt their advice.

They should already have stopped all trade and cooperation with us but they haven’t so that’s a good place to start.

The media is captured, it’s complicit, it’s bought and controlled by people like Murdoch.

Nationalism then. People love to feel important or like they’re part of something, even if they put no actual effort towards that end. Just identify with the place you happened to be born and convince yourself its victories are your own.

They only weigh a couple pounds.

Elder Scrolls is gonna be mid but the next Fallout will be the most immersive ARG ever.

It was mostly other imperialist countries and their vassal states, why wouldn’t they accept another of their own?

Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.

Yep. I don’t want to but there’s nothing particularly distressing about the idea. I’ve never felt “existential angst” or anything like that.

Forgive me if I’m not receptive of people thousands of miles away from me telling me I should go get shot by a fascist government or else it’s my fault they’re evil.

Nice b8 m8.

Come get your boy Rupert Murdoch and his spawn then since we’re cleaning up our own messes, or is the architect of contemporary right-wing media control my responsibility as well?

He’s an eternal VH1 “We ❤️ the 90s” one-hit-wonder, it’s definitely not the same thing as the impact Elvis and Bowie made on music and culture more broadly.

I can’t make a legitimate constitution either, any amendment requires 38 of 50 states to agree! The entire system was built to disproportionately empower rural areas because we “needed” their economic support to break free from Great Britain. (And we had substantial foreign assistance in that endeavor)

You are exactly as capable of flying to Washington DC and “storming the capital” as I am and the result would be identical.