Off the top of my head...
The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
The Rainmakers - Flirting with the Universe
XTC - Black Sea
Morphine - Good
Bloodhound Gang - Hooray for Boobies
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Mattoid - Great Lovers
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?
...or something like that...
Because it's never let me down.
I started using it pretty much from the beginning and have never had a reason to stop. When Chrome came along, I thought the whole idea of using a browser made by Google was obviously awful, so I just kept using Firefox. And I'm still using it.
Presumably, yes. It's scheduled to end next month.
And her goal is now his goal too, so it's just a matter of him saying it out loud.
This is pretty accurate, but it should be noted that ALL ideologies can be and often are treated essentially as religions.
They all serve as dogmas and myths around which a set of true believers congregate, who then alternate between telling each other their myths of inherent superiority, proselytizing non-believers and lashing out at the followers of competing sects. They all lay out moral guidelines by which they can both affirm the faithful and condemn the heretics and unbelievers. They all demand absolute submission and attack any sign of deviation, and since they've defined themselves as inherently morally superior, they consider any of those attacks to be self-evidently morally justified. They all have a hierarchy (whether formal or informal) by which dogma is disseminated to the faithful, with the view (again, whether formal or informal) that ideas that have not been sanctioned by the designated people somehow don't qualify.
And, pointedly, they all have their own "Satans" - the ideas and/or people that they can generally be counted on to blame for whatever evil might arise.
To be fair, the movie was pretty much doomed to fail. Robbins is one of those authors for whom the plot isn't really the point - it's just a sort of framework on which he then hangs... pretty much anything and everything.
You don't read a Robbins novel just for the story - you read it for the experience of him telling a story, and for all of the digressions and diversions along the way.
Yes - I've had many of those asshats over the years insist that I have to "choose a side."
That's generally because they can't actually argue for their position, and the best they can manage is to find fault with a self-serving characterization of a falsely dichotomous opposing position. So they need to be able to assign me to one or the other team, so they know whether they can ignore me or if they need to hurl some emotive rhetoric and fallacies somewhere in my general direction.
And yes - they're almost never worth engaging with.
And to go all the way back, it could be said that the exact problem is that they have unfounded confidence.
And it's sort of ironic really, because they're generally driven by a psychological need to be right, and clinging desperately to one fixed position pretty much guarantees that right is the one thing they will not be.
There's a line in Nicholas Roeg's movie Insignificance that has stayed with me for decades now.
There's an obvious Einstein expy just called "The Professor." At one point, he's asked why he's so cautious about his claims - why he habitually says things like, "I think that..." or "The theory is that..." or "One might argue that..."
His response is, "If I say 'I know,' I stop thinking."
That, IMO, points to the primary answer to your question - don't try to remove self-doubt. Nourish it. Revel in it. Because it's the thing that will keep you thinking, and the more you think, the more likely you are to get to actual truth.
I browse on All almost exclusively, and if a community or poster is notably toxic or spammy I block them, but if they just don't interest me, then I just scroll past them.
Honestly, I don't even understand what the supposed problem is. The world is full of things that don't interest me. That's just the way it goes, and really it's just background noise that I barely even notice.
This'd likely a bit more than inconvenience, but honestly, to the degree that it would be more than that (or more accurately to the people to whom it would be more than that), I just don't give a shit.
Make it literally impossible to knowingly lie. Full stop.
One of my personal favorites, and technically an example of media universe crossovers though probably not quite what one would think of, is the Japanese manga series Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha sharing an apartment in modern-day Tokyo.
3,000 - Oblivion
That's spread over 40 or so characters, and dating all the way back to 2006.
I happened on them when they put out their first album and have been a fan ever since, and that's even without ever getting a chance to see them live. Bob Walkenhorst is easily my favorite songwriter.
Flirting with the Universe is their fourth album - after a bit of a recording hiatus after The Good News and the Bad News, and it's far and away my favorite. It's obvious that they took their time and carefully crafted an album designed to showcase their talent. It's unfortunate that it still didn't manage to bring them the recognition they've always deserved, but I appreciate it.