i watched a really weird video about "initiations" the other day. some dutch pagan was talking about how we need initiations, how it's something missing in modern society. how the power of initiations, the way the world seems totally different after an initiation comes from *you* having been changed with the knowledge. and that there's a kind of magic in that.

all of that was relatively agreeable. and then they went "and kids these days look up to influencers and influencers are just kids in the bodies of adults and they're just Good Consumers and we need to teach boys how to be Dangerous Men, we need to teach boys how to be Producers and not Consumers"

and honestly i really should've seen it coming.