Just after 11pm on August 12, 2019, 16-year-old Alex Smith was walking home from a dinner with friends when he was spotted by six men who were out to kill.
May 19, 2023·edited May 19, 2023Liked by Ben Sixsmith
Vicariotica(* might prove more genre-fluid as it were, to serve as a broad umbrella term for disparate phenomena well beyond music scene 😊 I hear unmissable echoes from much less gruesome context ↓↓
🗨 My hunch is that somewhere near the heart of the problem is the fact that the pursuit of honour is really, *really* important to a great many men [...,] and that this remains true even when the only emotionally satisfying place to pursue honour is within a simulacrum.
Vicariotica(* might prove more genre-fluid as it were, to serve as a broad umbrella term for disparate phenomena well beyond music scene 😊 I hear unmissable echoes from much less gruesome context ↓↓
🗨 My hunch is that somewhere near the heart of the problem is the fact that the pursuit of honour is really, *really* important to a great many men [...,] and that this remains true even when the only emotionally satisfying place to pursue honour is within a simulacrum.
reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/incredible-shrinking-men
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(* ‘tis a word good to know 👌 (h/t Maurice Sendak, images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efb4b944024397c4e0e330/1508506597192-2ZTHD2SSJCCOET8Q1BME/Maurice+Sendak+2.jpg)
Thanks!
Me and Rishi don't live in Cambden so it's all good.
Hey now, it might not be my best Substack post but I don't think I deserve *that*
Just give them a starring role in a cop show.
They will sing a different tune.