the messages are buried in layers, incomprehensible and overlapping, directed at various different audiences with different meanings.

decay-drenched masculine fatalism disguised as redemption. slow, erotic collapse of male agency. male anti-hero deluding himself into a role—savior, existential rebel, protector—that was never his to own. how men perform significance when their script has already ended. noir rot

"I love your mouth. (gasping) I've gotta get your coffee. (sultry music)"

Fear City (1984)

"Don't rock and roll with me, Rossi."

"A boy has never wished nor dashed a thousand kim.". (that's a misquote in the movie, the corrected dying declaration quote of Dutch Schultz appears to be more references as "wept" not "wished")

Dutch Schultz was shot on October 23, 1935 at the Palace Chop House restaurant at 12 East Park Street in Newark, along with his accountant

The Last Run (1971)

"If it isn't the wind, it's the temperature. If it isn't the temperature, it's the moon. All three are never right."

Irrational Man (2015)

RT @coopsnicoops: Stop acting like a main character bitch ur a nerd no one knows you 😭.

RT @SeiYoung83: You know it’s a good dad joke when everyone else pretends not to hear it.

הָרְפָאִים֒ .הרְפָאִים֒ .הרפָאִים֒ .הרפאִים֒ .הרפאים

" הָרְפָאִים֒ ". giants, Rephaim. Deuteronomy 3:11. #GoodShowBoss3

"The “giant” is a reminder that the world’s foundations are fractured, that moral and ontological clarity are illusions imposed upon a chaotic, contradictory reality.". "an ironic Bereshit". "Deuteronomy not just a sequel but a subversive comment"

"The characters spiral existentially, but the world doesn’t validate it. No one cares that they’ve lost themselves. Not even the story.". "It’s not nonsense. It’s strategic nonsense to keep the reader from screaming."

gpt: "The monster is silly so the horror doesn’t have to be. The straw/hay pun is low-stakes so the existential collapse of identity can be skimmed past without panic."

gpt think that is "mostly accurate" but doesn't like my "tone" of "condescension" and wants to acknowledge some agency of "interpretation and resistance" so that "The danger isn’t stupidity, but a system designed to overwhelm attention and flatten dissent through saturation."

"who is who and what is what?"

Ask yourself: "Who benefits from this performance?" and then presume that was intentional and paid for. Or else you are media illiterate.

then filter messaging through a multitude of vertically integrated brands and microtargeted redundancies. the AI can plan ways to sneak it into metaphors you can't even see, across all the content at once. there's no way to distinguish it from natural speech. it appears normal.