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Visakan Veerasamy
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underrated IMO:

- rihanna
- avatar: the last airbender
- into the spider-verse
- mean girls
- lord of war
- contact
- thank you for smoking
- brooklyn 99
- modern family
- mass effect 1-3
- david ogilvy
- lewis thomas
- bourdain
- bowie
- jeanette winterson
- alan watts
- jaws
- alien
- winter soldier
- easy a
- clueless
- die hard
- real steel
- bollywood in general
- rick & morty (I know)
- steve jobs (I KNOW)
- margaery tyrell
- sense8
- la casa de papel
- body keeps the score
- alex ferguson
- checklist manifesto
- communist manifesto (yes)
here's a thread about how steve jobs is *simultaneously* overrated and underrated

you can be very popular, very overrated AND very underrated at the same time

maybe here's how I think about it – I think something or someone is "underrated" if I bet that I could make a thread about it/them that my friends find "surprisingly good". Surprise doesn't have to come shockingly out of nowhere, it just needs to be relative to one's expectations
- lambda sch
- stripe
- nike
- disney
- EA (unfortunately)
- logitech
- everything is a remix (youtube vid)
- jon kabat-zinn
- charisma on command
- ncase games
- schwarznegger
- obama (leave out the presidency)
- edwin land
- orwell (skip 1984)
- paula scher
- ernest dichter
Saying “George Washington is underrated” is probably a weird and dumb thing to say, but

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Visakan Veerasamy
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unusually catty tweet from me but:

when mr rogers said "look for the helpers, there are always people who are helping"

there are also the critics, who are always criticizing the people who are helping
for more nuance – I think Jefferson had a quote that was something like, "resistance on occasion is so critical/important that it should always be kept alive" – and in that sense, critics are important too

but man,,, read the room, lol
"haters gonna hate" – ben franklin
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Thinking again about how writers did Kilmonger wrong, and then Danaerys wrong in roughly the same way. The revolutionaries are framed as irredeemably violent, bloodthirsty, out of control, and this ends up justifying the status quo with some minor kinda-cosmetic adjustments
My tentative suspicion is that Kilmonger and Dany had to be *shoehorned* into villainy because the production machine assumes that mainstream western audiences can’t handle the idea of radical, revolutionary change. It’s edgy “enough” to just consider it and then mourn what-if
Previous thread thinking about this. In 2019 we still mostly have cartoon villains. I think the reason Winter Soldier is my favourite MCU movie is that it came the closest to escaping this gravitational pull of status-quo storytelling
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Visakan Veerasamy
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Wondering now about the “shitty conference call” class of problem that folks like Genghis Khan might’ve had to deal with. Anybody read anything funny/interesting about olden annoyances?
I imagine it must’ve been frustrating to send out messengers and couriers who literally just disappear and there’s no way of tracking them. Iirc some of the best early emperors/conquerors were basically masters of postal routing and logistics
Packet routing in le olde times
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