Did anyone else hear growing up "Environmentalism is un-Christian because it's a form of Gaia worship (and therefore idolatry)"?
Just occurred to me that one reason I like the horror genre is that it's a rare space in our society that allows us to explore feelings of fear and vulnerability.
Something I've never seen in discussions of the Alien franchise: xenomorphs work as a metaphor for unexploded ordnance.
Why is this site telling me that a historical Vietnamese military leader was a fictional person
I rented this weird-ass Christian movie and its sequel as a kid not knowing what I was getting into
Reading Marx describing the category he called the stagnant surplus population, I'm reminded of the gig economy.
Comment on this post and I'll reply with a quote from the Left Behind books
Messing around with Deepseek for worldbuilding and it keeps doing the Parenti "during the Cold War..." thing to my fictional societies
Soviet party secretary Mikhail Suslov gives off "mean teacher in a British boarding school comedy" vibes