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The Odyssey is a movie about generational trauma and a critique of the American Dream. But above all else it is a love letter to New York City.
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Alby Mengele
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I just read some RE Howard & at his best he is like this: the “watcher at the gates of the mind” has been dismissed & suddenly Conan is getting his face felt up by the proboscis of a little blind Elephant anthropoid who is being held hostage & tortured for 10k years by a sorcerer
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impro again: > Suppose an eight-year-old writes a story about being chased down a mouse-hole by a monstrous spider. It'll be perceived as 'childish' and no one will worry. If he writes the same story when he's fourteen it may be taken as a sign of mental abnormality. Creating a story, or painting a picture, or making up a poem lay an adolescent wide open to criticism. He therefore has to fake everything so that he appears 'sensitive' or 'witty' or 'tough' or 'intelligent' according to the image he's trying to establish in the eyes of other people. If he believed he was a transmitter, rather than a creator, then we'd be able to see what his talents were. > We have an idea that art is self-expression—which historically is weird. An artist used to be seen as the medium through which something else operated. He was a servant of the God. ... > Schiller wrote of a 'watcher at the gates of the mind', who examines ideas too closely. He said that in the case of the creative mind 'the intellect has withdrawn from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude.' He said that uncreative people 'are ashamed of the momentary passing madness which is found in all real creators...' ... > At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination wasn't 'good' enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. > The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene, and unoriginal.
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@David_____1 @husafell_stone You think he was "there" for them like a modern castrated male ?
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This is just so grim. I could never live like this. I would be so miserable. Just think: How can a father ground down to a fine powder like this be there for his children to raise them? There has to be a balance, and right now our circumstances really don’t favor large families.
🕊️@lichthauch
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
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@souljagoyteller Everyone in human history except for the last five years would’ve thought the PC (and actually racialized) casting was ridiculous.
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“Christopher Nolan, the film bro director par excellence, adapting one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization” was a fever dream for these guys, so seeing Nolan not indulge in their petty racialized peccadilloes stings like a knife
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To be clear, the reason the right is having a flipout about THE ODYSSEY is because all these guys grew up with Christopher Nolan and feel that “their” director indulging in “wokeness” is a betrayal of the highest order
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I wrote about the remote possibility of making the movie The Thing actually good. If that sounds like rage bait to you, you should read.
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@gaitanalyst Let’s see—bicameral mind? or Nolan made a movie full of Hollywood cliches? Whichever could it be…
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I suspect Nolan has a copy of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by his bed. His movie has a point of view. You may not like it and it may even bounce off you completely. But he made a movie true to that point of view.
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That gay book Circe already gave the women’s fiction version of The Odyssey—where Odysseus suffers from PTSD and his rapey crew are turned into pigs in a literal men-are-such-pigs scene. Very inspired, Nolan
Gait Analyst@gaitanalyst
People are going to be in their feelings upset about this as a PTSD film and they're bringing that themselves: none of this is medical, all of this is religious. Nolan is concerned with the law of hospitality, so much so that he breaks it down grade-school style, repeatedly.
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The movie’s reception has been phenomenal and even the dark elves are exulting in the defeat of the chuds in the name of inclusive casting. The thing about a culture war is that it’s still a war, and war sucks
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@Hntaigana @husafell_stone At that number of kids it’s almost irrelevant if one or two parents raises them. The point is they can raise themselves
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@husafell_stone @David_____1 This is the actual correct answer.
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@GiancarloSopo “So faithful.” Anyone in human history except for the last 5 years who had seen the film would’ve put you in a looney bin for this
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In my review, I was unsparing of the grifters who spent months yelling “woke” at a film no one had seen.
Their business model is to keep the American Right angry, incurious, and alienated.
Judging by The Odyssey’s success, though, these “influencers” aren’t very influential.
Giancarlo Sopo@GiancarloSopo
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@ScottMGreer Not knowing it’s called “two car” is your most southern post
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@husafell_stone You can’t base it off one measurement and if you work out regularly it is probably below 50 most of the time, but I don’t think that necessarily healthier than 59
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My resting heart rate last time measured according to Health App is 59… is this good or should it be lower? Weekly I do combat-type training kettlebell etc 4x a week ideally, plus intense boxing class 2x weekly, and if I have time and am not wiped out 2x kind of easy 5k runs.
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@RedwoodSociety Bret Harte invented most of the California archetypes known and loved all over the world today
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Who are the essential Californian authors? The visionaries who described what is good and heroic in the Golden State?
Let's make a list!
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The kids are “Nixonmaxxing.” wsj.com/politics/richa…
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@pli_cachete I need a Japanese guy yelling at me because he cares
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This is what reddit would do to Quint from Jaws. Sad!
Dudes Posting Their W’s@DudespostingWs
The r/bald subreddit convinces men who are losing their hair to finally shave it off and the transformations are almost always incredible
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