Scott Stilson


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Name a movie in which there’s a disagreement between child and parents and the parents turn out to have been unequivocally right.

I’ll wait.

The difficulty in answering this question is representative of a major cultural problem. Filial piety is miles better than whatever it is we’re doing now (just-try-to-keep-the-kids-safe-and-happy-ism?), but it stands zero chance of ever working if it gets zero support from culture machines.