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absolutely cursed things that i think would be personally funny: 

a personality-esque quiz of 'what religious domination is your company most similar to' lol

BROUGHT TO YOU by me talking to mom at lunch about religious denominations since she had a pretty eclectic upbringing of technically being raised catholic in the south in the 70's (given spanish heritage), in reality going to a hodgepodge of southern baptist/methodist/evangelical churches with her friends, and historically dabbling in a few others over the years.

anyway both of us were griping about issues we have with a bunch of them (southern baptists are notoriously gossipy and all up in ur personal businezz as a low-stakes example, and we also don't Like other people telling us what to do) which made me lol and think about how corporations handle the social fabric of stuff.

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#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#they’ll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#they’ve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)

(good tag essay that hit on what bothers me about disney-era SW stylistically)