Reading Revolutionary Spring again on the 1848 revolutions and thinking about all these weird, kooky, and also interesting political ideologies that didn’t really survive into the 20th century. Radical liberal republicanism, social revolutionaries that weren’t socialist, etc
The Mad Men ending isn't cynicism so much as an accurate appraisal of the origins of the current economic order. Steve Jobs isn't cynical when he says dropping acid made him a better capitalist. Draper's interest in bohemia and Frank O'Hara, etc. is genuine.
One of the best Bob Dylan bits is when he plays in a city you've never heard of and decides it's the perfect place to whip out an all time track that hasn't been played in like twenty years
What the fuck was Ridley Scott thinking with Napoleon? The movie becomes stranger the more I think about it. Just a series of baffling directorial choices.
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