Severin Matusek

It’s not just the party that is over. The culture war is over. So...the right won? No, but the liberals’ media empire is over.

This is super fun! Minted (& immediately opened my pack). Pure, good, internet energy. ~80 ppl collaborated (chaotically) to create 45 songs into a collection of ~21k songs (with generative cover art).

The internet works but not for us. This much is painstakingly obvious and has been for years. And yet, where are the better alternatives?

Taylor Swift, for example, is notorious for generating lore, putting easter eggs in everything she does, and readingand playing into fan theories about herself. She does this both in the ‘text’ of her songs (see: the fandom’s obsession around the Betty/August/James lore in the album /iterallycalled folklore), as well as in her activities surroundin... See more

The ‘90s version of not selling out meant refusing to play certain spaces or not letting your song be in a beer commercial. The ‘20s version of selling out means making things in limited quantities to play against mass culture. Though different, the responses come from a similar place. They’re both sensing a culture where, to quote Claire L. Evans ... See more

In this podcast Michael Pollan expands on his understanding of "spirituality" as a universal feeling of connectedness.