Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Panama Canal (place) 1 — Canal referenced in hypothetical villainous lottery spending plot

Dr. Evil (person) 1 — Fictional villain referenced for lottery spending plot style

Rhinegold (concept) 1 — Opera production mentioned as appealing to potential opera-goer

Akhnaten (concept) 1 — Opera production user is inquiring about quality

Sergei Yesenin (person) 1 — Russian poet whose work 'I do not lament, call out, or cry...' was shared in full with translation by Philip Nikolayev

Philip Nikolayev (person) 1 — Translator who rendered Sergei Yesenin's Russian poetry into English

Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony (album) 1 — Classical music piece listened to while drinking wine on a Saturday evening.

H.P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life (book) 1 — A long form essay by Michel Houellebecq analyzing the works of H.P. Lovecraft by examining his biographical details and ...

Call of Cthulhu (book) 1 — H.P. Lovecraft story referenced in discussion about AI and the dangers of correlating all human knowledge.

Thelonious Monk (person) 1 — Jazz musician referenced in a score note comparison.

Thich Nhat Hanh (person) 1 — Buddhist monk and spiritual teacher mentioned alongside Thomas Merton.

Be Kind Rewind (film) 1 — A sweet and sincere Michel Gondry film featuring Jack Black that includes sweded movie scenes.

Griffith Park (place) 1 — Park in Los Angeles where a missing actress's purse was found.

Paterson (film) 1 — A Jim Jarmusch film watched by the poster

The Post (film) 1 — Film referenced as an example of potential style for a Trump biopic

Hiatus Kaiyote (person) 1 — Musical artist referenced as a comparison point for Willow Smith's sound.

Belgrade Film Festival (place) 1 — Film festival whose posters are displayed at the Yugoslav Film Archive.

Yugoslav Film Archive (place) 1 — Archive location displaying Belgrade Film Festival posters.

Puer Aeternus (book) 1 — A book dealing with the concept of the eternal child and refusal of growing up.

Marie Louise Von Franz (person) 1 — Jungian psychologist and scholar who wrote extensively on analytical psychology.

Blake Butler (person) 1 — Author of the novel Void Corporation (previously published as Alice Knott).

Void Corporation (book) 1 — Novel by Blake Butler about a corporation that steals and destroys priceless artworks, inspired by Pynchon's Crying of L...

Alice Knott (book) 1 — Previous title of Blake Butler's novel Void Corporation.

The Crying of Lot 49 (book) 1 — Novel by Thomas Pynchon that inspired Blake Butler's Void Corporation.

The Sand County Almanac (book) 1 — Book by Aldo Leopold containing essays including 'Good Oak' that profoundly affected the reader's worldview.

DeLilo (person) 1 — Author mentioned among 20th century thinkers who discussed how mass communication shapes social order.

McLuhan (person) 1 — Theorist who recognized how mass communication shapes the social order in absolute and highly intrusive ways.

Baudrilliard (person) 1 — Theorist who discussed how mass communication shapes the social order in absolute and highly intrusive ways.

How Should a Person Be? (book) 1 — Book about identity and self-discovery that explores how people choose who to become

Attached - the New Science of Adult Attachment (book) 1 — A book by Dr. Amir Levine about adult attachment theory and the biological basis of dependency in relationships.

Joker (2019) (film) 1 — A 2019 film that generated intense reactions and was considered by many as exceptional media.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (person) 1 — Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet whose sonnet is inscribed on the frame of his painting Proserpine.

Birnam Wood (book) 1 — A novel by Eleanor Catton that the poster found underrated.

Eleanor Catton (person) 1 — Author of Birnam Wood mentioned as underrated.