A Parent’s Guide For Culturally Vaccinating Our Children

Because “Nickelback to the Future” was taken* 🤷

* ️What is up with the zeitgeist?! This is from this year!

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Image generated by Gemini, whose guardrails are so extreme they prevent depicting a child’s shoulder.

The End of Monoculture

A while back I came across the Asa Park video
Why We Were Told to Hate Nickelback, and it’s been coming back to haunt me repeatedly, throwing rocks at the windows to my soul and begging me to talk about it with all my friends:

Hazardous materials

I’ve been helicopter parenting my child since he was a baby, both because he’s deathly allergic to dairy (and they put dairy in everything), and because I’m a gamer-dad-slash-cinephile with a high tolerance for taboos and boundary crossing who’s read James Hillman and Terence McKenna and who understands that everything we’re exposed to changes us — every plot device, every character, fiction and non-fiction alike. I know what’s out…