if you want to see how the horseshoe works, check out how many reactionary online leftists in this thread have pop cultural complaints that are indistinguishable from your average hard right reactionary conservative. https://twitter.com/garbageape/status/1307338666478653443">https://twitter.com/garbageap...

i mean, there are reasonable pop culture critiques, like, i think it& #39;s not great that movies, in particular, are so heavily dominated by big budget action films, but it& #39;s never in history been easier to find music or movies or books or art that appeals to your individual tastes.

with just a couple of clicks, i can rent or download or order an entire lifetime& #39;s worth of classical literature or the entire criterion collection or whatever, and plenty of it& #39;s free through your local library.

if you& #39;re unhappy with your current choices when it comes to pop culture or art or entertainment, it& #39;s because you have made an active, intentional choice not to learn anything new.

the other thing about this is that it& #39;s not like most of these commenters actually have better tastes or deeper pools of art or literature or knowledge that they& #39;re swimming in. this is just knuckle-dragging, reactionary, "i don& #39;t like this which makes it bad" complaining.

that knuckle-dragging reactionary tendency is completely indistinguishable from how the right has approached art and knowledge in all of their many, many forms for my entire adult life.