Wednesday 26 May 2021

i have a certain amount of homework to do and i’d like to get it done on time

Via r/Obscure Media, we are directed to the 1958 McGraw Hill educational short The Snob about pushing away friends and working on oneself with a bunch of cavorting middle-aged teens. Sarah’s just too high-hat, but it’s hard to frame these personality types in a contemporary, intergenerational milieu—who’s the model adolescent, and what was perceived as snobbery is internalised as social anxiety. “All the kids who get by on apple-polishing will be there too and I don’t like them!”