can this shit boil over into a proper gamergate sequel already? i wanna grift off it

why is he green is he sick get better soon, dankey kang

this but unironically

genetics determine aesthetic instincts, which shape moral frameworks, which generate cultural expressions that remain stable across time and geography

i remember seeing a post a while back about how western cowboy ballads are extremely similar to old european battle-poetry i'd like to offer a more specific interpretation: big iron is old norse skaldic poetry through a modern lens. not similar to, IS. skaldic poetry was written from a third-person objective viewpoint, just like the song. they often contained a moral lesson at the end, such as how humility is often a desirable trait in a warrior, like "Oh, he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip" they tended to rely on poetic descriptors of weapons: loki's "wounding-wand" vs the ranger's "big iron." they relied on something called kennings which were compound words, such as bow-gautr, meaning bow-warrior, functionally identical to gunslinger. poetic rather than literal descriptions of the person's role skaldic poetry followed a specific 6 lines verse -> 3 lines chorus -> repeat pattern, which modern music does not follow, but the repetition rhythm of "big iron on his hip" matches very closely and shares the same mnemonic functions "the town of agua fria" is a heiti: a combination of two common terms to create a setting. "frostwater" is a literal example, "agua fria" means "coldwater" identical cultural artifacts separated only by time and location. the same people do the same things they always do regardless of time or location.