Post #4003511
2026-07-22 04:13 UTC
I've talked about this matter before but I'm returning to it...it's a deep rabbit hole indeed, this one. Especially because I swear that I've managed to disturb the memetic tides just a bit because I'm seeing My Dinner with André memes now and I'd been trying to watch the movie many times over the years. We'd often find that we'd dissociate partway through because the content is so...bewildering.
But it's bewildering in a very familiar way. André Gregory's style of conversation resembles that of a lot of the "dark intellectual" types I've run into on Twitter, people who have just enough schooling and knowledge to make really nasty racists. Most of them need to be very careful about maintaining their particular shade of semi-visibility.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-22 04:18
Not having seen the movie recently it's hard to describe exactly what was wrong about André Gregory's ravings, but that's partly my point: Gregory's chatter has a way of...blurring out in the mind, as if it's constantly vibrating or simmering with subconscious mutability. I'm reminded of another typing tic that I found myself making on Twitter in those bad old days when I was trying too hard: I'd want to type out "Peter Thiel" and it'd keep coming out "Peter Thief" and notice that F and L aren't near each other on the qwerty keyboard. (cont'd)