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New post is up. Warfare as considered moving from an impersonal experience to a totally alienated one.

@Enezator The Aesthete. I know the cover looks different, but based on her reaction, it's obviously The Aesthete.

I’m really curious which book made this woman so emotional… if anyone knows, write it in the comments 🥺📚

New post is up. Warfare as considered moving from an impersonal experience to a totally alienated one.

HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. Is thy union here? [Forcing him to drink the poison.] Follow my mother. (King dies.) LAERTES He is justly served.

@Polandish3 "You know, somebody told me that the worst part about contemporary warfare is the alienation, but I disagree." "You do?" "Yeah, I think it was the warfare."

@merripillar Warfare moving in a dangerous direction? Say it ain’t so!

NOW UP AT THE PILLARIST: As developed nations push an arms race increasingly reliant upon AI and drone tech, the purpose of war tilts in a dangerous, postmodern direction. ABSENTEE WARFARE thepillarist.com/absentee-warfa…

@Watercressed Thank you, sir! Reading is optional.

@merripillar I already bought it, and now you want me to read it too?

Read good books, too. Old especially, but also The Aesthete. Available now.

There are still diamonds in the rough out there, but man you really wouldn't know it unless you went out of your way to find <1000 follower accounts.

This site has suffered severely from the inflation rate of takes, especially bad ones. Can see posters desperately trying to pack wheelbarrows' worth of takes into entire threads, and it still isn't enough to bother engaging with. Cyclical discourse doesn't help.

Let the plebs drown, if this is the case. It's over, if this is the case.

@oneforeds FREAK SHOW

When you choose the right husband, your child gets the right father.. girls

Would be pretty cool if @BarackObama narrated The Obama Store. I think he'd like it. thepillarist.com/obama-store/

An entire generation of people was blown away by the men in black entrance exam scene.

Time from 28 to 30 took 400 years, 30-35 took about five minutes

No civilized society should tolerate graffiti. Graffiti isn't art. Any graffiti 'artist' who aspires to artistry needs to recognize this futility. You like making something nice? Great. Your peers don't. For them it's just territory, like a dog lifting its leg.

Broccoli's been dead for quite a while. Time to put James Bond away. Go back to the books, or period pieces, which Hollywood would ruin anyway.

Only problem is they didn't find much to work with, so they made Bond into a personal character arc story. The Bond movies don't work that well like that. Maybe Spectre and the last one were good, but I doubt it. Skyfall was fine enough, I guess.

I liked most of the first three Craig Bond films. Did not see the other two. Still, even those first three were very careful in depicting Bond as a present-day figure. The stories got convoluted, personal, not at all reflective of the other films.