in every phase of media

huh, so it did, my childhood book of greek myths misled me

this is PROCRUSTES erasure (although in his case he deserved it)

(but also i’m just enough of a cranky adbusters gen xer to deplore the invisible mesh of corporate IP delimiting the zone of possible interest for kids these days)

as someone who has always been obsessed with old media from an early age, it’s sobering to have become the guy going “why would you care about the trash media of my youth, don’t you have better newer things than that now?”

(a picture of daffy duck putting a cartoon gun to his head is why blusky has tagged the quoted post, it's fine)

everything Ian Nagoski does is worth paying attention to (give him money on Bandcamp for his life-changing reissues of little-noticed immigrant recordings), but the clarity with which he distills hundreds of years of cultural history in this essay inspires professional envy in me

i'd just finished reading it when i got this ping, 1000% necessary