This is Jakobi Meyers erasure

Update the tomatoes are taller but I have given many away so now everyone gets some light

The piece though is more saliently about hatred vs. enjoyment / “bec[oming] a hater instead of a lover” and that is a false economy, one that has long been used to stifle criticism. It is not “mean” to dislike something. That’s engagement and that’s how culture and taste are made

Really though as a Jew I find the idea of just liking something/not hating completely alienating. And as an educator I think the retreat from criticism is bad for civil society. Culture needs haters

Old shit, gotta get new ones this is New York baby

Disinvited from next year’s seder

JC and FJ are great cites bc they connect SF to politics on a level deeper than theme. Still can't see the political significance of the hoverboard, and if anything plummeting T**la sales argue that people really do want the present to be less disappointing

A fictional genre, a type of car, and a piece of consumer junk are very clearly not the same kinds of things. They of course could interact in a politically specific way but I am genuinely unsure how you think they do

What I’m asking for is for you to break down your original point. Sci-fi, EVs, and hoverboards are all different categories of things. They’re all part of the same cultural field but in a way that’s so diffuse that I genuinely don’t get the political point you want to make

No but they have different kinds of cultural significance than the other things you’re talking about

Yeah sci-fi can be annoyingly statist (notable exceptions exist) but the hoverboard is not “research” it was just a fad

lol ofc they don’t, that’s marketing. Unsure what that has to do with a “shrinking concept of political futurity”

You good bro?

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I mean he probably will sit in a chair by the fire and after much thought have a stunning realization about those closest to him so who’s to say?