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poor leftists talk about poverty, labor aristocrats get uncomfortable and insist that sociological classes aren’t materialist. “all that matters is that we’re working class - we’re all in this together”
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black leftists talk about racism, whites get uncomfortable and insist that they’re not personally part of the problem. “we mustn’t allow the bourgeois to divide the proletariat along racial lines - we’re all in this together”
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female leftists talk about patriarchy, men get uncomfortable and insist that it hurts them too. “this men vs women stuff is reductive anyway - we’re all in this together”
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third world leftists talk about imperialism, americoids get uncomfortable and insist that red white and blue lives matter too. “what happened to the international working class - we’re all in this together”
you don’t have to invite yourself to every form and experience of oppression. anyone with a baby’s consciousness of intersectionality ought to be capable of admitting when they have privilege
That seems like a stretch. I highly doubt public mental health facilities have ever been synonymous with intoxicating opulence.
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Kicking a lot of mentally ill people out onto the streets was an atrocity, no argument from me there.
I’m arguing that Hotel California being about mental hospitals doesn’t make sense. There are so many lines that run counter to that interpretation:
The . . . intake nurse?
Even if the staff can afford some luxuries, it doesn’t seem like something they’d discuss with a patient.
Said nobody about an inpatient mental health facility ever
A hazard and contraband that would be immediately removed
And the part that might work,
really only half works. The “never leave” part works, sure, it was involuntary hospitalization, but how can you explain “check out any time you like?” Letting patients fake a check-out just seems like torture.
I always thought it was about drug addiction, specifically in the music industry, which lines up a bit more with the things you pointed out imo. And I heard that checking out was a euphemism for suicide.
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I don’t see how he was being pendantic? He was just analyzing the song lyrics to point to another interpretation
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Or, he could be neurodivergent and tends to take things literally. Just because someone interprets something different than you (particularly something as subjective as song lyrics) doesn’t mean you have to go straight to insults.
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I’m sorry if I came off as aggressive, it wasn’t intended that way. I myself have been accused of being pedantic about things because of my autistic perspective, but I can agree that being pedantic isn’t inherently a neurodivergent thing, I was just trying to give a different perspective. I do have to disagree that saying someone is being “reddit-level pedantic” is comparable to someone saying something doesn’t make sense, though.