Red Scare Canon

Cultural References from the Subreddit

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• Web 2.0 (concept) 1 — A term referring to the second generation of internet services emphasizing user-generated content and social networking.
• Lauren Duca (person) 1 — Journalist who discussed Bernie Sanders campaigning with Caroline Calloway.
• Chronic Town (album) 1 — R.E.M. album mentioned as great alongside discussion of their first two albums.
• Mel Brooks (person) 1 — Comedy legend mentioned as example of someone who maintains reverence despite career decline
• Daddy (book) 1 — Collection of short stories by Emma Cline featuring fully-developed problematic characters
• Grand Union (book) 1 — Short story collection by Zadie Smith featuring pieces of moral complexity
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (book) 1 — Book by George Saunders on craft of fiction based on Russian short story class
• Answer to Job (book) 1 — Carl Jung's work on God's need for human consciousness and interpretation of the Book of Job
• Daisies (film) 1 — A film the poster is hesitant to recommend to normal or woke friends.
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (film) 1 — A film the poster is hesitant to recommend to normal or woke friends.
• Robert W Malone (person) 1 — Consultant from Madison, Virginia, acknowledged as the inventor of MRNA gene therapy, allegedly blacklisted from history...
• Jonas Salk (person) 1 — Historical figure who didn't patent his research but was never blacklisted from history, used as comparison to Robert W ...
• Cultural Marxism (concept) 1 — Political concept referenced in satirical post about Taliban trade deal
• Diabolique (film) 1 — Film referenced as comparison to The Scary of Sixty-First
• SmarterChild (concept) 1 — Early chatbot that the poster admits to bullying
• Klimt (person) 1 — Austrian symbolist painter whose work was viewed at an art gallery
• W S Merwin (person) 1 — Poet and author of The Lice mentioned in nightstand contents.
• Caroline P (person) 1 — Musical performer noted for hitting high notes in knee high boots
• Dan Carlin (person) 1 — Host of Hardcore History podcast series focused on long-form historical narratives
• Sam Bankman Fried (person) 1 — FTX founder interviewed by Tucker Carlson from MDC prison.
• Sor's Method for the Spanish Guitar (book) 1 — A classical guitar instruction book by Fernando Sor from the romantic era
• Banality of Evil (concept) 1 — Concept describing the bureaucracy behind Holocaust atrocities, applied to economic systems
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (person) 1 — Proto-Beat poet who called himself one of Whitman's wild children
• Cervantes (person) 1 — Spanish author compared by Neruda to Whitman
• Sutro Baths (place) 1 — Historic San Francisco bathing facility that attracted tens of thousands daily
• Tartaria (concept) 1 — Conspiracy theory referenced in discussion of crowded public spaces in early 1900s
• John Peel (person) 1 — Radio DJ listened to religiously by indie music fans in the 1980s-90s
• NME (concept) 1 — British music journalism magazine read weekly by indie fans
• Bobby Gillespie (person) 1 — Musician whose fringe hairstyle indie kids tried to emulate
• Shoegazing (concept) 1 — Music subgenre referenced in indie scene reminiscences
• Beautiful South (person) 1 — Band whose CD represented selling out of indie generation
• Alphabet City (place) 1 — New York City neighborhood where a bookstore requiring masks was located.
• Enrique Iglesias (person) 1 — Singer accused by an Instagram user of killing someone.
• Afghan pull out (concept) 1 — U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan cited as an example of something actually happening.
• Melville (person) 1 — American author referenced as a point of comparison for Nabokov's prose writing ability.
• Wallace (person) 1 — Author (likely David Foster Wallace) whose connection to Nabokov was invoked unsuccessfully in defending literary taste.
• Unto This Last (book) 1 — John Ruskin's attack on political economy, cited as an example of extensive use of analogies in 19th century writing.
• Mos Def (person) 1 — Hip-hop artist and member of Blackstar
• Talib Kweli (person) 1 — Hip-hop artist and member of Blackstar
• Chuck Klosterman (person) 1 — Writer mentioned for balancing humor and intellectual content, though sometimes leaning too much on humor.
• Clarissa (book) 1 — Book on Mary Shelley's reading list considered potentially too long for book club
• The Utopia of Rules (book) 1 — Book by David Graeber discussing bureaucratization, corporations, fascism, and neoliberalism
• Introduction to Symbolic Language (book) 1 — Book by Erich Fromm about dream interpretation and symbolic communication from the subconscious.
• Red Rocks (place) 1 — Concert venue mentioned in context of Zach Bryan's live performance.
• The Tempest (film) 1 — Shakespeare play adaptation directed by Antoni Cimolino with Martha Henry as Prospero.
• The Taming of the Shrew (film) 1 — Shakespeare play adaptation by American Conservatory Theater in 1976, directed by William Ball in Commedia dell'arte sty...
• Charlton Heston (person) 1 — Actor who starred in 1979 adaptation of Julius Caesar.
• Franco Zeffirelli (person) 1 — Director of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare adaptation.
• The Apartment (1960) (film) 1 — Film recommended for healing during difficult times in love life, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
• Gadaffi (person) 1 — Libyan leader referenced in comparison to Assad's timeline.