kontextmaschine:

that was the sum of it, it was a stab towards what it means to be “a real [person/thing]” in a culture where mythical figures could be more “real” than living humans

but we still pretended to be enlightenment atheist materialists, that was the conflict that still seemed live when I took that note a year ago but less and less relevant

Oh NOW I remember, it was about what person had appeared in the most pinball tables - I think it was Harrison Ford off the two Indiana Joneses, the Data East Star Wars and the Spanish knockoff Star Wars, it’s 5 now with the new Star Wars

that’s modern era, the old stuff’s more ambiguous and it might actually be Laurel & Hardy