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Cake day: January 11th, 2024

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  • I don’t think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don’t think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We’ve been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn’t something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.











  • It starts a bit morally ambiguous, like letting a woman (who is ruining the life of your surrogate son by getting him back into using drugs) die from her own bad choices.

    I didn’t find that morally ambiguous at all. That was when I had my first “okay, fuck this guy” moment.

    I also want to point out how your last paragraph starts with “The point is that there is no understanding what he did in the end”, and then you promptly proceed to explain how you understand it.