Turkey is good. Last year I made my first one, and it went pretty well! Now, last year I was using my folks' kitchen, and this year I'll be using my own, but I'm still excited for it. I bought a small turkey this year, since it's just me, and I'll be eating leftovers for days afterwards.
I would say there's more evidence for that being true for Spain than for Germany. Like, there were explicitly anti-clerical elements in the Spanish government. While that position was correct, it's a fundamentally dangerous one to a broad cross section of Spanish society. Whereas the threat in Germany was to the Junkers and established industrialists.
Plus it's hard to compare the incredibly fractious civil society of Spain to that of Germany. The government was incredibly weak in Spain (of all stripes) compared to that of Germany. The Weimar republic was weak, but the states were still strong under Weimar. Spain had nothing that compared.
I find he’s got pretty pedestrian takes on pop culture, most of them just are a combination of contrariness and “it used to be better”. Even if you dress your takes up in socialist clothing, they’re still starting from that boring starting point. And just to be clear, I do agree with him sometimes, Lovecraft Country being the most obvious example, but I don't think he brings anywhere near the insight to pop culture that he does to politics and civics.
I'd say Adam Curtis, but to be honest, I've only seen Hypernormalisation. But I looked up his filmography, and wow he's got a lot of other documentaries.
So I think I'll check them out, some of them sound pretty based.
·4 years ago
Kinda like the opening.ceremonies of the olympics, but less bonkers.