The only way to concurrently understand Xi Jinping as an American Golden era traditionalist and make sense of Charli D’amelio’s apathetic rise to fame.
They’re probably more orthodox but it usually goes like this:
“Oh hey Mariano! Do you have any religious beliefs?”
“Yeah, I guess similar to Tom Holland’s approach, my morals and ethics are traditionally found in Christian orthodoxy, but in a social justice + advocating for the poor + gender equality sort of view.”
“Oh so…not like American evangelical?”
“No more like a Bonhoeffer’s “smoke a pack of cigs a day and participate in assassination attempts towards fascist leaders” type of Christianity.”
“…oh…” Anyways — the whole theologian / spy to help an assassination attempt on Hitler and being put in a concentration camp with his only request being cigs to smoke and fighting against injustice type of Christianity > whatever we’re seeing from the RNC right now. Some would say this is very “unchristian” and “very progressive” and they’d be wrong and uneducated.
I used to think TWXTTXR was a literal embodiment of the collective unconscious. But no, it’s just the collective ego. Let’s dip down and get into the good stuff.
You need to try. If nothing else I am THE ice cream connoisseur. I can say with full confidence this is the best American based ice cream flavor of the past 10 years. Innovation at its finest. Sweet initial reveal on palate, chased by savory aftertaste. The hallmark of what shouldn’t be but is. The Tom Cruise dating Cher of dessert.
