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Cultures Are Disgusting

July 20, 2025

Society

experiencing, ignorance, religion, social masses, society

Yeah, that’s one of those deliberately provocative titles of mine. The thing is, the word “culture” has such diverse meanings that it makes it easy to be offended by the claim, Cultures Are Disgusting. I mean, if we talked about bacterial growth on a Petri dish – a culture – few would disagree with it!

Obviously enough, that’s not the case here – I’m not referring to bacterial growth. I also don’t try to attack being cultured, since, equally obviously, the entire existence of Home for Fiction revolves around art, philosophy, knowledge, thought.

Rather, by arguing that cultures are disgusting, I attack the prevalent societal idea of conglomerating thought, boxing identity, (de)limiting expression.

Cultures are disgusting – we can imagine hearing Slavoj Žižek saying that while watering his (?) flowers – because any given culture (and I will attempt to define it more precisely in this post) is essentially an attempt to direct your thought.

cultures are disgusting. image of unimpressed cat.
Cultures are disgusting; cats are not – guess why: because they are individuals
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Only Femininity Can Save the World

July 10, 2025

Society

feminism, ignorance, society

As I mentioned in my post on shame saving the world, it was Dostoevsky who famously claimed that beauty would perform the miracle – with a Greek blogger offering a much needed correction: Beauty will save those who can see it. But let’s see another candidate: Can femininity save the world?

In fact, fuck it; I better stand behind my words, otherwise what’s the point of uttering them: Only femininity can save the world.

Before I explain myself – I’d say the inspiration behind this idea is at least as important as the idea itself – it’s important to lay down some theoretical and conceptual foundations. “Femininity”, like “love” or “success” is a very tricky word, particularly perhaps in today’s world.

So for my purposes and the purposes of this post, I define femininity as a body of cultural knowledge. It’s the collective human history of what being a woman is (better: can be) without – and this is crucial – being limiting or exclusive to women. Any culture or body of cultural knowledge that is prescriptive rather than descriptive is disgusting.

Only Femininity Can Save the World. Photo of a woman with eyes closed.
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Infinite Scrolling: Destabilizing Perceptions

June 28, 2025

Society

ignorance, mediocrity, society, technology

Infinite Scrolling refers to a website design where there is no fixed height – and thus amount of content – but instead the page keeps displaying new material as the user reaches the perceived bottom of the page.

You might not immediately see anything particularly important about this, beyond its role as a design element. That is, most people might simply shrug and dismiss it as a simply functional element, limited to webpage design.

The truth is, infinite scrolling is an incredibly insidious factor of ideology and cultural destabilization.

As I’ll analyze in this post, infinite scrolling is responsible for both propagating mediocrity and destabilizing perceptions. Of course, the two are directly relevant to one another.

infinite scrolling. image of cat browsing the web
Infinite scrolling conditions you to be unsatiated, making you think there’s always something important or interesting if you only scroll a bit more.
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