it's ok btw. im not saying this in an elevated way like that's some great intentional ideological evil or crime. on another level, what im responding to in a broader sense is the manufacturing of consensus by retconning inevitability from a future that is not yet determined. a way of narrowing the future, erasing options, missing oportunities to recalibrate and course correct. like well, now this is here. adapt to it and innovate or become obsolete and perish. like imagine if the innovation of better waterproof eyeliner in the early two thousands meant once you became emo aesthetically, that was that. clearly a superior product. dark waterlines forever more. funny to think about.