we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong
Makes it sound like they've had funded research and top men at the lab working on this problem for years now. That if you stroll around the physics department hallways of Princeton or Berkeley, sooner or later you'll bump into a room that has a "Jupiter Ascending" plaque on the door, people inside scurrying around in white labcoats while clutching their clipboards.
Wow, I was not expecting to be reminded of Jean Michel Basquiat, but here we are!
Of course. He's not a power-hungry parasite. It's apparent on first and ten thousandth glance that he is a decent human being and you can tell, carrying on with dignity, compassion and a sense of humor. Which baffles and infuriates any and all stunted shitheads lacking in those three traits, wallowing in the sewage swamp of their own inferiority complexes. Such as the midget pig and the orange pig, to shoot pigs in a barrel, so to speak.
Quantum mechanics is an area of physics that leans on measurement as a central concept. What things are doing between measurements is not its' concern, and don't even stop and think about it, you'll go nuts, just shut up and calculate!
The average USA voter has already given hitler the keys to the kingdom.
In 2016, the battleground state non-voter empowered the goose-steppers and crippled everyone's future.
In 2024, the average USA non-voter ignored every single alarm bell going full blast and destroyed any hope for that future.
And still the average USA non-voter sits, twiddling their thumbs, waiting to be catered to, to be dazzled. Waiting for their own version of a messiah with a magic political wand, too lazy, ignorant to the point of medieval, and impatient to even begin and try to understand the principle of inertia, how political will builds up over time and several election cycles.
The way the electorate abandoned Obama during the 2010 midterms and empowered the tea-baggers should have tipped me off about the utter mediocrity of all these precious flowers, "perform miracles overnight, even as you also try to keep the entire economy from collapsing, or go fuck yourself".
The right-wing propaganda trick is to get people to NOT do what they didn't want to do in the first place - homework is boring, voting is lame, amirite?
After a quarter of a century of having hope in the eventual decency of the USA electorate, the entire world has given up on them, as moscow and beijing salivate like hungry rats about to feast on a carcass. Now it's every man for himself.
The average non-voter must be very proud; must feel very special right about now. Congratulations.
Looks more like power on the bird line to me.
Is this...?
Well, is it?!!
Can't say it, don't dare invoke it.
In fact, you might even say I am at a loss for words.
When this song came out, I was a teenager, and our world was divided into two basic factions:
Seldom did both of these worlds meet. Maybe with bands like Blondie and The Cars, music with some of this new sensibility which had made it to mainstream radio.
"Mad World" sounded like some sort of clarion call for those on camp 2, like nothing else like it before. Here we were, taking in all these new sounds, a whole ontology of them, and out pops this thing that still managed to sound completely fresh, to surprise and dazzle us.
This was all amplified by the video, in which Orzabal dances like no one we'd ever seen before. For a minute there, right after The Hurting but before Songs From The Big Chair, the Tears For Fears duo was the hottest thing in the zeitgeist.
Infotainment media is mental illness itself, compulsive and addicted, with no memory retention nor ethical compass, it amplifies what is worst in man, it FEEDS it.
And that's not even considering enemy propaganda from china and russia infiltrating itself into peoples minds, trying to destabilize democracies.
Fuck your sociopathic industry, what you made it into.
The thing about half life, that the way I'm understanding it, may imply that there are stray Higgs Bosons or Strange/Charmed Quarks here and there that could stick around unreasonably long, maybe, for minutes or hours... is that even possible?
Just frame this and put it in a museum, it is a work of art.
You might mean achieving sudden vertical velocity, but I like to think he stayed put while achieving eyesight superpowers even if for a brief moment before reacting, saw things the way the camera did in that famous shot in Jaws of Roy Scheider's face getting the dolly zoom treatment.
Thusly.