Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (album) 2 — Lauryn Hill's album ranked as someone's second all-time favorite album.

Siamese Dream (album) 2 — Album by Smashing Pumpkins, listed as number three in a top five albums list

Control (album) 2 — Janet Jackson album ranked as someone's fourth all-time favorite album.

Kid A (album) 2 — Album by Radiohead, listed as number five in a top five albums list

Goya (place) 2 — Food brand that became subject of liberal cancellation after Ivanka Trump posed with their beans, cited as an example of...

Changes (album) 2 — 2Pac song worked on in 1992, released posthumously in 1998, discussed as capturing the melancholy of unfulfilled revolut...

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (album) 2 — Song by The Smiths that became associated in the poster's mind with Dasha Nekrasova on drugs

Marsha P Johnson (person) 2 — Historic drag performer whose life is being rewritten by liberals according to the post.

Lumineers (person) 2 — Band grouped with stomp clap millennial anthem genre that the poster considers genuinely bad.

The Great Escape (film) 2 — Film that emulated ideas from La Grande Illusion including the escape tunnel

Sartre (person) 2 — Philosopher referenced as part of rational arguments against nihilism

Camus (person) 2 — Author currently being read by poster who feels they are missing something in comprehension.

Heaven To A Tortured Mind (album) 2 — Album by Yves Tumor released around 2020, part of the artist's hot streak.

A Dance to the Music of Time (book) 2 — Novel series by Anthony Powell selected as desert island book choice.

Perfect Blue (film) 2 — Anime film mentioned with commentary on its moral message

Therapy (concept) 2 — Mental health treatment discussed critically as a medicalization of normal emotions.

Buddy Holly (person) 2 — Musician whose chart performance was beaten by 'The Battle of New Orleans' song in the 1950s

Fear and Loathing (book) 2 — A film watched repeatedly by the author while on DXM during high school.

Murakami (person) 2 — Author discussed for having repetitive formulas in his stories involving average male protagonists and descriptions of w...

Spinoza (person) 2 — 17th century philosopher referenced in discussion of mocking Christianity as counter-cultural

Foucault (person) 2 — Philosopher cited as undeniable example of someone who became more conservative with age.

Cathedral (concept) 2 — Mencius Moldbug's term for concentrated wealth and its effect on media and institutions.

Tarkovsky (person) 2 — Russian filmmaker whose film clips the poster watches.

The Jam (person) 2 — 1970s punk band mentioned as still putting out great music in the 1980s

Buffalo 66 (film) 2 — Film by Vincent Gallo that the poster loved at age 13 but fears revisiting.

Adolf Eichmann (person) 2 — Nazi official referenced in comparison to Brian Thompson regarding following orders.

Nabokov (person) 2 — Russian-American author of Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire, whose work became grounds for a dating rejection.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (film) 2 — 1999 Shakespeare adaptation directed by Michael Hoffman with Stanley Tucci and Kevin Kline.

Jeff Vandermeer (person) 2 — Author of Annihilation, recommended as sci-fi similar to Philip K. Dick.

Do the Right Thing (film) 2 — Film cited as example of comedy writing where everyone is knocked down a peg but simultaneously viewed with sarcasm and ...

Four Quartets (book) 2 — Poetry collection by T S Eliot that includes Little Gidding, published in 1942 during WWII.

2010s (concept) 2 — Referenced as the era of Craigslist missed connections culture

Madame Bovary (book) 2 — Novel discussed in a Red Scare book club, with translator Adam Thorpe mentioned.

Enlightened (film) 2 — TV show by Mike White described as prescient about human behavior archetypes.

Player Piano (book) 2 — A 1950s Kurt Vonnegut book about technology and automation described as more prescient than modern predictions.

Take off your pants and jacket (album) 2 — Seminal Blink-182 album that was the poster's first exposure to the band.

Baudelaire (person) 2 — French poet whose concept of the flâneur is being studied in a class.

Jackie Brown (film) 2 — Film by Quentin Tarantino described as a masterpiece in a discussion about his podcast with Roger Avary

996 (concept) 1 — Work culture system (9am-9pm, 6 days a week) that the author fears might eventually come to their workplace.

1491 (book) 1 — Pop history book by Charles C. Mann about Native American life before Columbian contact

2006 (concept) 1 — Year referenced in relation to Miami Vice film

Bar Rescue (film) 1 — Reality TV show referenced to describe a cocaine-using nightclub manager

Al Murabba (place) 1 — District referenced in a satirical post about hipster coffee culture, apparently located in a Middle Eastern city.

Griffith (person) 1 — Character from the manga Berserk used as a physical comparison for someone's distinctive appearance

Yoav Gallant (person) 1 — Israeli Defence Minister who said 'no electricity, no food, no water, no gas, we are fighting animals and acting accordi...

Law for Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott (concept) 1 — Legislation active in many US states and on its way to becoming federal law that bars businesses and nonprofits from boy...

Tioga (place) 1 — A small town in North Dakota at the center of the Bakken oil formation where workers lived in 'man camps' during the oil...

Bakken oil formation (place) 1 — A large oil reserve in North Dakota that became economically viable to extract after oil prices spiked in 2009, attracti...

Del Taco (place) 1 — Fast food restaurant chain mentioned in a satirical abortion clinic story.

Indianapolis Star (place) 1 — News publication that first reported the story of a 10-year-old rape victim denied abortion in Ohio.