the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.
The thing antisocial ass Americans don’t get is that being neutral and passive, choosing not to make a decision in life and letting their relationships lie in stasis, still amounts to doing something and choosing something. It’s just affirming whatever entropy and decline the prevailing state of things brings. And indecision can be just as irreversible as decision