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Having a set of beliefs tethered to reality probably. Also as a general principle the right/centre don't believe the job of the government is to interfere in every aspect of peoples lives. This at least limits their ability to reproduce the empty gestures and moral lecturing of the left.
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This read like an episode from Portlandia.
It's basically the plot of Empire Records , the 1995 classic starring young Renée Zellweger and Liv Tyler. Except with a radical left bookstore instead of independent record store. And no happy ending.
Ironically though, there is a line by the owner of Empire Records on how he would be a rich man if his hippy father hadn't turned his grand fathers toilet emporium into a record store. But considering the state of record stores right now in the world, he is probably right, and long term a toilet store was a better option.
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I mean… it’s not impossible. I just don’t think Trump is that smart, though.
I know this is a tangent, but I just want to share this oddity. I am 38 years old, and I have been trying to buy Neuromancer since 1999. I have been in Santiago, Rome, London, Miami, Madrid, Bogota, live, in situ looking for the book on mainstream bookshops and I have never found a copy to buy. I know Neuromancer by heart but I have never been able to buy a copy of it. 38 Years.
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A museum in my city closed because they were very unprofitable and couldn’t continue attracting more and more donations to handle their costs. A lot of people were angry and upset that it was closing, but whenever you pressed someone about it they would admit they hadn’t visited in a decade or more. Of those who had, the experience wasn’t very good. The museum had become more interested in poor digital displays and o…
Also true of favorite restaurants and childhood haunts. Things change and interests move on.
It didn’t change with the times at all and the subcultures themselves went into decline or just aged-out of being club-goers. On closing night it was rammed with people who were sad to see it go, who wished it could stay there. The owner asked “where have you all been?”
Well, we’ve been ageing, hanging out in craft ale bars and doing that a lot less often. Our appetites for hanging out in a loud, semi-subterranean dive are satisfied by an annual or biannual visit to a place we thought fondly of and thought would always be there, but didn’t really want to be in when it came to it.
Performative radicalism that freaks out wider society instead of slow steady progress has led to the near complete irrelevance of the left in the west, especially the anglosphere. I mean, UK Labor is a centrist pro-capital party now. It's over.
What I wonder is how this didn't also happen to the right.
Well, the "right", or more aptly conservatives, actively resist change in culture and society. They conserve it (hence the name).
People who enjoyed this may also enjoy the Blocked and Reported podcast's episode about Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe, "the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can café in the world". If I remember it right, it closed among similar drama, also specifically involving issues with the building's toilet. I have to admit to finding these things hugely entertaining. But for balance I'll point out that Housmans ha…
Radical left-wingers subdivide into two groups: 1. Those who intuitively understand power dynamics and endeavor towards a "don't kill, and don't be killed[0]" mentality, even if they understand that the radical change they want is generational 2. People who want to wear the boot To be clear, every organization and movement has #2. Libertarian conservatives are chock full of Trump bootlickers, neoliberals were basical…