DavidReadsASoIaF
@davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social
Maker of amateur audibooks on youtube. Thanks for listening!
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Yeah man people have complained in the past so nothing ever gets worse
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yeah man people have complained in the past so nothing ever gets worse
They are the Adornian nightmare scenario of people who have willingly given up their humanity in exchange for consumer ease and comfort.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They are the Adornian nightmare scenario of people who have willingly given up their humanity in exchange for consumer ease and comfort.
Left-wing neogenovesianism (south was not exactly capitalist modernity, evil) barely exists anymore (Stephanie McCurry at Columbia and some of her students) but right-wing neogenovesianism (south was not exactly capitalist modernity, wonderful) has a large audience among the "intellectual" right.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Left-wing neogenovesianism (south was not exactly capitalist modernity, evil) barely exists anymore (Stephanie McCurry at Columbia and some of her students) but right-wing neogenovesianism (south was not exactly capitalist modernity, wonderful) has a large audience among the "intellectual" right.
Eugene Genovese was an immensely influential orthodox marxist historian of the antebellum south who argued that the slaver class resisted capitalist modernity and that the south's political economy was "seigneurial." He later became a calhounian paleoconservative who explicitly admired the slavers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Eugene Genovese was an immensely influential orthodox marxist historian of the antebellum south who argued that the slaver class resisted capitalist modernity and that the south's political economy was "seigneurial." He later became a calhounian paleoconservative who explicitly admired the slavers.
This comment on a dreher post in like 2018 was preposterously insightful
![Comment on a Rod Dreher Blog post: One of the main reasons I read Rod's blog posts is that the "rush to abstraction" or "flight from actual thinking" that he reliably engages in whenever there's fresh media spectacle outrage that's posited as "bad for The Right" invites me to theorize the social dynamics of the lead-up to the coming North Atlantic civil wars. It's always some variation of
"this is the first step towards what I've been predicting the leftists / woke capital / BLM / Marxists [all contemporary variations on the bogeymen of protestant papo-masonophobia] are going to do to us right-wing deplorables!"
Yet, when you strip away the outrage take-ological interpretations and predictions in order to look at what actually just took place, you learn that someone who was engaged in (expressing support for) something that the right notionally condemns (racism, rioting, incitement to violence, fraud, murder, harassment, rape,...) got punished for doing just that. Or was part of a movement that is all about that (if you do believe QAnon gets banned everywhere for advocating small-government conservatism, give me a ring and let's talk about public infrastructure investment opportunities in Brooklyn). It's never right-wingers getting banned for being right-wingers as such. Someone gets punished for something the right notionally agrees they deserve to get punished for, and then right-wing intellectuals decide to rush to abstraction to remedy the optics, mine the event for apocalyptic ideation and enforce internal partisan-tribal discipline.
You can't prove that the takes are wrong per se because it's impossible to prove a negative. What is certainly true though is that the consumer of "outrage takes" learns from the rush to obfuscate the actual, i.e. to cover up the wounded pretence of respectability, that the person who did something wrong is "on Our Team" and, moreover, embodies the Real (the part of reality that cannot be symbolized and that remains as trauma) of o…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2fib2m4gulr7j5pmbvgajvd/bafkreif6fmk3vjsywwkbtfuefmiyexitszqyoyoj5hiicjj5rnqj6xrbti@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This comment on a dreher post in like 2018 was preposterously insightful
The American Conservative comments sections was one of the last truly insane boards on the web before they nuked it. Right-wing situationists, neogenoveseans, people who read like reanimated Adorno, right-wing guys whose politics was obviously downstream of esoteric personality disorders all posting
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The American Conservative comments sections was one of the last truly insane boards on the web before they nuked it. Right-wing situationists, neogenoveseans, people who read like reanimated Adorno, right-wing guys whose politics was obviously downstream of esoteric personality disorders all posting
It's awesome how the inciting incident is the state refusing to support pastor dave's church women's shelter because of anti-christian bigotry, and then pastor dave's campaign is all about how the state shouldn't fund social services because private charity is enough. unintentionally insightful
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's awesome how the inciting incident is the state refusing to support pastor dave's church women's shelter because of anti-christian bigotry, and then pastor dave's campaign is all about how the state shouldn't fund social services because private charity is enough. unintentionally insightful
Far too many theoretically left wing posters adopted a posture of bland techno-optimism because they feared being seen as someone who complains about "kids these days." e.g. "it's not phones, it's capitalism!" as if the two are completelty unrelated.
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Far too many theoretically left wing posters adopted a posture of bland techno-optimism because they feared being seen as someone who complains about "kids these days." e.g. "it's not phones, it's capitalism!" as if the two are completelty unrelated.
The "groomer" slander/panic is more legible in this context because to suggest that a young person under righteous patriarchal domination has any sort of sexuality, much less in a form not determined and endorsed by patriarchal authority, offends against the same image.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The "groomer" slander/panic is more legible in this context because to suggest that a young person under righteous patriarchal domination has any sort of sexuality, much less in a form not determined and endorsed by patriarchal authority, offends against the same image.
Like so much of right-wing politics they primarily understand the sexual abuse of children as an offense against an image -- that of childhood innocence under righteous patriarchal domination -- not a person.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Like so much of right-wing politics they primarily understand the sexual abuse of children as an offense against an image -- that of childhood innocence under righteous patriarchal domination -- not a person.
I could post every song but just one more: two guys on a long walk pass the time by playfully composing and trading poems back and forth. Dudes rock
youtu.be/E_HjYSxGjkQ?...
youtu.be/E_HjYSxGjkQ?...
Poems
YouTube video by Isao Sato - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I could post every song but just one more: two guys on a long walk pass the time by playfully composing and trading poems back and forth. Dudes rock
youtu.be/E_HjYSxGjkQ?...
youtu.be/E_HjYSxGjkQ?...
Stephen Sondheim’s favorite song he ever wrote is from Pacific Overtures, a two-chord contrapuntal reflection on memory and knowing and history and our place in it
youtu.be/JpoKuNyVNhQ?...
youtu.be/JpoKuNyVNhQ?...
Someone in a Tree - Stereo - Pacific Overtures - Original Broadway Cast
YouTube video by Broadway Classics
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Stephen Sondheim’s favorite song he ever wrote is from Pacific Overtures, a two-chord contrapuntal reflection on memory and knowing and history and our place in it
youtu.be/JpoKuNyVNhQ?...
youtu.be/JpoKuNyVNhQ?...
Behold, the “Tradition” song from Fiddler on the Roof but it’s about late-Edo feudalism:
youtu.be/OH3QJy9rEos?...
youtu.be/OH3QJy9rEos?...
Pacific Overtures Stereo - Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea, Broadway Cast
YouTube video by Broadway Classics
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Behold, the “Tradition” song from Fiddler on the Roof but it’s about late-Edo feudalism:
youtu.be/OH3QJy9rEos?...
youtu.be/OH3QJy9rEos?...
Behold, the song wherein the rulers of a newly “opened” Japan confront the major “western” world powers, portrayed by Asian actors in whiteface speaking comical broken english
youtu.be/Z8WiudDlTBw?...
youtu.be/Z8WiudDlTBw?...
Please Hello - Stereo - Pacific Overtures Original Broadway Cast 1976
YouTube video by Broadway Classics
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Behold, the song wherein the rulers of a newly “opened” Japan confront the major “western” world powers, portrayed by Asian actors in whiteface speaking comical broken english
youtu.be/Z8WiudDlTBw?...
youtu.be/Z8WiudDlTBw?...
Great scene I, Claudius (TV) where he laughs at Caligula calling himself a God bc now surely the Senate will see the absurdity and restore the Republic. Cut to Senators unctuously celebrating the miracle pf their emperor’s earthly apotheosis.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Great scene I, Claudius (TV) where he laughs at Caligula calling himself a God bc now surely the Senate will see the absurdity and restore the Republic. Cut to Senators unctuously celebrating the miracle pf their emperor’s earthly apotheosis.
Remember how back on twitter some replacement level reactionary turd would successfully bait the whole website every two weeks by posting a picture of some beloved stew and calling that entry in the inherently unphotogenic stew genre “slop”
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remember how back on twitter some replacement level reactionary turd would successfully bait the whole website every two weeks by posting a picture of some beloved stew and calling that entry in the inherently unphotogenic stew genre “slop”
I believe that our terrific and frankly late-stage syphilitic president saw it and believed it was real and that it became a new memory for him of something he had done earlier in the day after he watched it.
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I believe that our terrific and frankly late-stage syphilitic president saw it and believed it was real and that it became a new memory for him of something he had done earlier in the day after he watched it.
Jim Bakker’s a prophet who I think you oughta listen to
What he can say to you:
Buy the end-times food
What he can say to you:
Buy the end-times food
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Jim Bakker’s a prophet who I think you oughta listen to
What he can say to you:
Buy the end-times food
What he can say to you:
Buy the end-times food
Oh ok so Benny Harris's 1946 solo on Ornithology sucks now? Benny Harris sucks at trumpet? He should go to jail? You're saying Benny Harris belongs in jail? That's messed up.
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oh ok so Benny Harris's 1946 solo on Ornithology sucks now? Benny Harris sucks at trumpet? He should go to jail? You're saying Benny Harris belongs in jail? That's messed up.