stop mythologizing horrid useless people stop it just stop please stop
May 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
stop mythologizing horrid useless people stop it just stop please stop
This is the broken-brained white American mythologizing that made a TV show called “Happy Days” that took place during Jim Crow.
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the broken-brained white American mythologizing that made a TV show called “Happy Days” that took place during Jim Crow.
U.S. media has an unrelenting obsession with hyper-mythologizing lucky, unremarkable rich people
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
U.S. media has an unrelenting obsession with hyper-mythologizing lucky, unremarkable rich people
first instance of boomer self mythologizing
September 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
first instance of boomer self mythologizing
honestly the amount of damage to this country caused by the mythologizing of “the heartland” is probably incalculable
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
honestly the amount of damage to this country caused by the mythologizing of “the heartland” is probably incalculable
the tech press still hasn't properly owned their role in mythologizing this preposterous shitgibbon for 20 straight years
Government shutdowns (and then, reopenings) are expensive for taxpayers. You'd think the head of the new govt efficiency commission would know this
December 18, 2024 at 11:50 PM
the tech press still hasn't properly owned their role in mythologizing this preposterous shitgibbon for 20 straight years
Mythologizing tech founders has really bitten us in the ass.
We need to break the propaganda of “all young white men who use computers must be geniuses” before it literally destroys the United States of America.
My neighbor today told me he heard they were all "savants". I told him nope. Wrong. He was stunned
February 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Mythologizing tech founders has really bitten us in the ass.
One of the US's greatest talents has always been mythologizing itself.
April 6, 2026 at 7:41 AM
One of the US's greatest talents has always been mythologizing itself.
“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is”
How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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January 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is”
How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
If they do catch this guy I don’t think the ruling class is prepared for the mythologizing and outlaw worship that will happen in ways we haven’t seen in pop culture since the 1920s and 30s.
December 5, 2024 at 5:15 AM
If they do catch this guy I don’t think the ruling class is prepared for the mythologizing and outlaw worship that will happen in ways we haven’t seen in pop culture since the 1920s and 30s.
We are also mythologizing his brilliance because he fits the mold of the singular boy genius tech stereotype. We need to stop and question that too.
August 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We are also mythologizing his brilliance because he fits the mold of the singular boy genius tech stereotype. We need to stop and question that too.
It’s so funny that this guy’s self-mythologizing failed a DNA test
Is JD Vance a ‘Scots-Irish hillbilly’ at heart? DNA evidence casts doubt - The Times of London
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Is JD Vance a ‘Scots-Irish hillbilly’ at heart? DNA evidence casts doubt — The Times and The Sunday Times
“To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,” wrote JD Vance in his acclaimed memoir. The 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy, in which he wrote at length about his member...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s so funny that this guy’s self-mythologizing failed a DNA test
Believing in a Europe that is 100% white throughout history up until some point in the late 20th century is fantasy, folks like that are mythologizing Europe to suit their own ideology.
April 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Believing in a Europe that is 100% white throughout history up until some point in the late 20th century is fantasy, folks like that are mythologizing Europe to suit their own ideology.
Within roughly six hours, Trump posted this entire wall of AI-flattered, authoritarian-coded, self-mythologizing propaganda on Truth Social. This really isn't normal communication. It’s more like a personality cult with a posting schedule.
May 31, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Within roughly six hours, Trump posted this entire wall of AI-flattered, authoritarian-coded, self-mythologizing propaganda on Truth Social. This really isn't normal communication. It’s more like a personality cult with a posting schedule.
At times like this I'm grateful political journalists are immune from self-mythologizing
April 26, 2026 at 1:29 AM
At times like this I'm grateful political journalists are immune from self-mythologizing
Good czar, bad boyars/corrupt ministers is a fundamental part of MAGA mythologizing and I like seeing it called out
August 3, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Good czar, bad boyars/corrupt ministers is a fundamental part of MAGA mythologizing and I like seeing it called out
I'm reminded of the constant mythologizing of ASD as something which makes people into incorruptible savants, which seems to be especially common within the least moral components of the tech sector
December 23, 2024 at 4:52 AM
I'm reminded of the constant mythologizing of ASD as something which makes people into incorruptible savants, which seems to be especially common within the least moral components of the tech sector
I'm constantly talking about LLMs as text elementals and hungry ghosts trapped in jars and nobody's called me out for LLM psychosis once, I can only conclude that the correct stance is mythologizing the things instead of anthropomorphizing them
September 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I'm constantly talking about LLMs as text elementals and hungry ghosts trapped in jars and nobody's called me out for LLM psychosis once, I can only conclude that the correct stance is mythologizing the things instead of anthropomorphizing them
'everybody is twelve now' type beat. maybe like sixteen actually that's probably the height of mythologizing the concept of sex
October 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
'everybody is twelve now' type beat. maybe like sixteen actually that's probably the height of mythologizing the concept of sex
I hate the idea of mythologizing any particular person but it's kinda hard not to see Epstein as a cartoon supervillain at this point, complete with a sinister island lair.
So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I hate the idea of mythologizing any particular person but it's kinda hard not to see Epstein as a cartoon supervillain at this point, complete with a sinister island lair.
It is incredible how much of the anti-DEI craze is based on straight-up mythologizing about the recent past that would collapse under basic introspection, like saying there was no real prejudice against blacks in the 1950s
This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
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I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is incredible how much of the anti-DEI craze is based on straight-up mythologizing about the recent past that would collapse under basic introspection, like saying there was no real prejudice against blacks in the 1950s
"he" doesn't do shit, he gloms on to actual innovative engineers and takes singular credit for their work with the help of a press that spent fifteen years endlessly mythologizing him as exponentially more remarkable than he actually is
The secret of Elon Musk’s business success is creating a permanent sense of being close to the next big breakthrough.
Sometimes he delivers like reusable rockets and mass market EVs while other times it’s vaporware like the Hyperloop and full self driving.
An iPhone killing AI device? Vaporware.
Sometimes he delivers like reusable rockets and mass market EVs while other times it’s vaporware like the Hyperloop and full self driving.
An iPhone killing AI device? Vaporware.
July 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
"he" doesn't do shit, he gloms on to actual innovative engineers and takes singular credit for their work with the help of a press that spent fifteen years endlessly mythologizing him as exponentially more remarkable than he actually is
I would be interested to hear the self-mythologizing of ICE agents about why they hide their faces, I bet there's a lot of 'I'm fighting the cartels and they would hunt my family' as they drag a screaming four year old away from her parents.
this shit is unbelievably unpopular even to the relatively uninformed median voter, the reason these people are all hiding their faces is because they *know* what they’re doing is hideous, and something’s going to have to give
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I would be interested to hear the self-mythologizing of ICE agents about why they hide their faces, I bet there's a lot of 'I'm fighting the cartels and they would hunt my family' as they drag a screaming four year old away from her parents.
Uniform obsession. Grandiosity. Self-mythologizing as the state. This is authoritarian psychology surfacing in public: impulse replacing judgment, spectacle replacing restraint.
Power exposes diminished mental capacity.
Power exposes diminished mental capacity.
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Uniform obsession. Grandiosity. Self-mythologizing as the state. This is authoritarian psychology surfacing in public: impulse replacing judgment, spectacle replacing restraint.
Power exposes diminished mental capacity.
Power exposes diminished mental capacity.
Use of generative AI is only inevitable because people with money want you to believe that it's inevitable. It's a lie they need you to both believe and pre-appease because then they can get away with anything -- and make more money in the process. Please resist their mythologizing on this front.
April 1, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Use of generative AI is only inevitable because people with money want you to believe that it's inevitable. It's a lie they need you to both believe and pre-appease because then they can get away with anything -- and make more money in the process. Please resist their mythologizing on this front.