
The Marching Kornbluths
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The Marching Kornbluths
@2ndFoundation2
Classic Sci-Fi. Atheist who appreciates the utility of non-aggressive religions. Center-right. #2A 🪐 🏏⚾️ Don Bradman is the GOAT.





Here's the video of @JDVance identifying himself as part of "the postliberal right" while speaking at an @ISI event for his friend @PatrickDeneen's book "Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future" - in case anyone was looking for it:


Why didn’t they just make Zendaya Helen of Troy? Would anyone have complained about this? I don’t think so. Instead they made the most attractive woman in the movie someone other than the most attractive woman in the movie. Makes zero sense.



Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of the Odyssey Christopher Nolan drew on for his new film, has brought Homer back from antiquity. One of the most celebrated translators in the world, she is reviving a fading academic discipline and shining with a harsh and brilliant light in the humanities’ gathering gloom. “The ancient Greeks teach one to be modern,” the poet and classicist A. E. Stallings observed. “They taught that to me and to Emily. It was time to strip away all the mannered layers—the tarnish of centuries—and she does that. Her translations have the freshness of the sky after a storm. Read Judith Thurman’s 2023 profile of the translator: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KHq2J7



"The face that launched a thousand ships." People are saying, "Don't blame Lupita Nyong'o. The casting decision wasn't hers." But she chose to accept the role, right? Imagine if a white actor decided to play Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, or T'Challa. They're saying The Odyssey is fiction. So, Black Panther is a comic book. Can a white person play Black Panther? Helen is one of the most important characters in The Odyssey. Her beauty plays a huge role in the story. She was Greek. Casting a Black actress ruins everything. She's a good actress, and people may find her beautiful. But that's not what Helen of Troy was like. Woke Hollywood is destroying thousand-year-old history.




In all this endless discourse, has anybody yet come up with a theory of how Nolan's diversity casting choices _improved_ the movie? All I'm hearing so far are things like: - But film was good anyway. - Only on screen 5 minutes. - Why are you asking? Are you racist? - I hate you.






















