• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    My first exposure to the word “Kafkaesque” was on the show Mission Hill, with a character complaining about how often people misuse it. I didn’t really understand what it meant, I was like 12 years old staying up late to watch it on adult swim, not quite the target audience for either the show or Kafka.

    As I got older and began to understand the world better, that colored my perception a bit, I heard a lot of people use and more often misuse it, and little clips of Mission Hill played in the back of my mind.

    I miss the days when everyone seemed to be misusing the word “Kafkaesque.” Now it seems like you can slap that label on just anything and it would be accurate. It’s almost hard to misuse it anymore.

    Please, no meat-touching, ma’am.