Author: Fiver
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Why Is Furiosa Bombing at the Box Office?
The latest addition to the Mad Max cinematic universe, Furiosa is currently dying on the rocks of audience indifference and struggling to beat out a cat who hasn’t been relevant for more than twenty years. At the time of this writing, it looks like it is well on its way to failing to even come…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Leave Centrism
For the record, I can recall a time when I too enjoyed flaunting my lack of allegiance to either Right or Left, my freedom from “ideologies,” and my commitment to individualism. Don’t hate me, I read “Self-Reliance” at a young age and it made probably more of an impact than it should have. I saw…
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Another Case of Academic Autism
So I’ve already bought my digital copy of Haidt’s latest, The Anxious Generation, but have not gotten down to reading it. Nonetheless, Rob Henderson, coiner of the concept of “luxury beliefs” and guy I follow on Twitter, has read it and has also been highlighting relevant and interesting passages and posting the pics to Twitter.…
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On Bears & Broads: What Are We Meant to Make of the Bear Question Discourse?
So much of our personalities are the accretions of the lessons (good or bad) that we took from our childhoods. In my case, having grown up in a deeply dysfunctional household where one was always walking on eggshells, I developed a belief that things matter, even (and possibly especially) small things. This belief doesn’t always…
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Escaping the Cul-de-sac of “Engaging Education”
Time has a way of making certain tasks easier. If you ask me today to describe the most memorable of my high school STEM classes, there are essentially only two that remain. The first is the day that Daniel cut his hand to ribbons when a beaker shattered during an experiment, but since this wasn’t…
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Encanto: The Anti Lion King
May you live in interesting times. ~Ironic Chinese blessing (apocryphal) The hardest thing to realize is that there is a conflict in the first place. You watch a movie and this movie divides the world into nice, tidy groups: right, wrong, good guys, and bad guys. By and large, the distinctions between these groups are not…
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Dean Abbott is an ass
Dean Abbott is a chaplain and author of two books as well as the Substack blog The Anchor & the Waves. He is also an ass. To be fair, that title is a bit click-baity, and I don’t really know for a fact that Dean Abbott is an ass. I’ve only recently become aware of…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Poison
Of the controversy that’s been drummed up by the recent release (after nine years of development) of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a good deal pertains to the fact that it is simply a bad game. Repetitive design, cynical cash-grabbing features, even more cynical time-wasting features; it is a smorgasbord of anti-consumer schlock. Most…
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The Horror of Infinity Pool: Absolute Nihilism
“The line between good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart.”~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This movie is going to get completely spoiled. Infinity Pool tells the story of James and Em Foster, a couple of young socialites, who are thrust into a nightmare…
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Thinking about the Boogie2988 Problem
For anyone who was online during the halcyon years of the 2010’s, Boogie was one of those guys that you just couldn’t help knowing about. Even if you didn’t watch his content, you knew his face, and you knew that he had a reputation for being one of the nicest people around, if one who…
The Barking Years 