Lenin statute in public squares and Che t-shirts always set me off. People who never experienced communism should look at what’s happening in Venezuela.
Many valid points but I am not sure we have a center right political party currently in power that is interested in building a strong middle class. today.
Be they left or right, are the people who are willing to commit political violence the ones who are more likely to be elected to office because they present a superhero-ish facade?
More likely to win support from the aggrieved and more likely to seem like a superhero to them, but can a politician appeal to some on the basis of political violence while also appealing to a broader group by downplaying that very violence?
Had no idea that captain america peddled to reactionary elements [Kidding!!!]. I have always disliked super-heroes. As a child I was an Asterix/TinTin snob in a sea of marvel fanatics.
I had always smelled a rat in the world of superheroes. My mom objected to their overt nietzsche-ian grounds.
"J.R.R. Tolkien’s books are among the most lasting works of the 20th century not just because they appeal to children, but because their appeal to children runs parallel to moral themes that even a middle-aged man has to sweat when grappling with. And no question in his work is greater and more pregnant than the question of the Ring’s corrupting power—and why Gandalf or Elrond doesn’t just set himself up as the anti-Sauron, an FDR or Churchill to Sauron’s Hitler. With… Stalin as Saruman? Tolkien, of course, always denied that his epic was an allegory. But you gotta wonder."
The dumbest bumper sticker I saw, ever, was on some hippie camper saying 'Fight Evil'
Really???
Super-heroes were a training regimen for a generations of Americans and it has led precisely to the type of moral masturbation that has come to define 'the left' and 'the woke' these days.
And just for the record, despite what Dr. Spock says, Masturbation really is bad.
Yarvin's article is def worth a post.
You may argue that moral masturbation is the happy hunting-ground of the powerless (etc etc), but I prefer Bulgakov's approach. Reacting with absurdist humor (or any humor) will slay more dragons and get you more princesses than any onanist (spelling?) activities.
Lenin statute in public squares and Che t-shirts always set me off. People who never experienced communism should look at what’s happening in Venezuela.
Many valid points but I am not sure we have a center right political party currently in power that is interested in building a strong middle class. today.
Be they left or right, are the people who are willing to commit political violence the ones who are more likely to be elected to office because they present a superhero-ish facade?
More likely to win support from the aggrieved and more likely to seem like a superhero to them, but can a politician appeal to some on the basis of political violence while also appealing to a broader group by downplaying that very violence?
Had no idea that captain america peddled to reactionary elements [Kidding!!!]. I have always disliked super-heroes. As a child I was an Asterix/TinTin snob in a sea of marvel fanatics.
I had always smelled a rat in the world of superheroes. My mom objected to their overt nietzsche-ian grounds.
But this article by Yarvin: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/three-questions-for-richard-hanania is very illuminating. On many things but on this thread, this quote:
"J.R.R. Tolkien’s books are among the most lasting works of the 20th century not just because they appeal to children, but because their appeal to children runs parallel to moral themes that even a middle-aged man has to sweat when grappling with. And no question in his work is greater and more pregnant than the question of the Ring’s corrupting power—and why Gandalf or Elrond doesn’t just set himself up as the anti-Sauron, an FDR or Churchill to Sauron’s Hitler. With… Stalin as Saruman? Tolkien, of course, always denied that his epic was an allegory. But you gotta wonder."
The dumbest bumper sticker I saw, ever, was on some hippie camper saying 'Fight Evil'
Really???
Super-heroes were a training regimen for a generations of Americans and it has led precisely to the type of moral masturbation that has come to define 'the left' and 'the woke' these days.
And just for the record, despite what Dr. Spock says, Masturbation really is bad.
Yarvin's article is def worth a post.
You may argue that moral masturbation is the happy hunting-ground of the powerless (etc etc), but I prefer Bulgakov's approach. Reacting with absurdist humor (or any humor) will slay more dragons and get you more princesses than any onanist (spelling?) activities.
Thanks for the Yarvin post. I'll read it later today.
Do right about how communists and nationalist socialists are dealt with.....whether in face or in opinion.