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Plutarch's Parallel Lives open.substack.com/pub/nocapariso…

@MarinoLinich @Smirkley It can't change. The whole point is to "submit" yourself and everyone else to the moral ceiling as outlined by the life of Mohammed, and then Allah will magically provide success.

Islam is a premodern religion that hasn't really changed since. As such, premodern societies like Afghanistan are real islamic societies. The issue with modernized muslims is that they have been made literate by us. By reading the quran, they come to the conclusion it is their duty to bring back a premodern society.

Many will claim the Taliban aren’t “True Scotsman.” But in many ways they are the truest of Scotsman. Muhammad married a girl named Aisha when she was 6, and consummated the marriage when she was only 9.

@pegobry_en Game of Thrones made money.

I mean, like, at some point you also have to make allowances for the fact that you want modern audiences to enjoy the film and that you have a fiduciary duty to provide a return on investment on the people putting hundreds of millions into the film. Even the most "based" filmmaker would have omitted this because it would have been gruesome and repellent to 99% of moviegoers.

@Anthrofuentes @DavidDecosimo > there are many modes of dissemination of scholarship Normal. > based on a radical decolonial approach Not normal.

@DavidDecosimo Umm, this notion, that there are many modes of dissemination of scholarship is widespread across disciplines. There is not a thing weird about it. Plus, she's not chair of our dept, I am. And that's not her "presidential address". And that is not at all what she is saying.

For all of you ranting about some weird imagined version of Anthropology, please go read some anthropology. And, don't forget that The Vanderbilt report is neither good scholarship nor a rigorous study (the report itself admits that). See here: chronicle.com/article/are-le…

@Finnegan1435321 It's useful sometimes. youtu.be/lDBQTVZFnnM

I've never been much of a debate guy. Depending on the topic, what is there to debate? For example, if the topic is White nationalism, what's the point of debate on that? You'd be debating someone disingenuous that wants our people genocided via "immigration".

@ConceptualJames Speaking of Dugin.

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@SwipeWright @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but that's the relevant implication that fits in a tweet. Africans have "local adaptations" for lower intelligence. That's a deal breaker. There's no benefit to Europeans. Nobody is seriously fighting over yellow fever.

@NoCaparison @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness Quote me stating what you claimed I said. Use an actual quote, with quotation marks.

Classic

@SwipeWright @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness Peter asked you about maximizing genetic diversity, and you said you could but then you're choosing local adaptations that may or may not make sense. youtu.be/bamuZmxuM_I?t=…

@NoCaparison @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness Please show me exactly where I said "you only get the benefits of genetic diversity from within your racial gene pool."

@SwipeWright @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness You did an interview with Peter Boghossian where he asked you about inbreeding.

@NoCaparison @JoelWBerry @iansmithfitness I have never said that.

@therealreadonly @IMPERATORAUS Pretty much every major philosopher after Machiavelli has rehashed the same ideas about entitlement, alienation, repair, etc. Modern culture and politics is not that deep.

@IMPERATORAUS So you raised your kids Catholic and have taught them nothing about modern culture or politics. And this will somehow save western civilization?

@JustinHami41413 @DanteJeffe14617 @holybullies @michaelbd The transvestites were shrieking about it last election as if it were a real concern.

@NoCaparison @DanteJeffe14617 @holybullies @michaelbd Oh..please...go ahead. But IRL mate..

I guess what I’m getting at with this is that the antiwoke critics overplayed their hand before the release. But now the film’s defenders and champions are slightly overplaying theirs. Nolan *is* unfaithful to the text and spirit. It is “modernized” - perhaps by having a more Christian understanding of deceit and profanation as a sin. A certain Nietzschean might say that’s “woke” but most people using the word woke just mean the creative casting choices.

@JustinHami41413 @DanteJeffe14617 @holybullies @michaelbd We could arrange to kill all of the totalitarians again.

@NoCaparison @DanteJeffe14617 @holybullies @michaelbd You didn't do shite

@mcgillmd921 Doesn't even have the crumbling columns on the spines.

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It means you "woke" up to Critical consciousness. Blacks "woke" up to Critical Race Theory consciousness, specifically. The general concept of Critical Theory comes from neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer in 1937. It's an ideology for creating totalitarian revolutionaries, but generalized so that it can be repurposed for all sorts of causes, and not be limited to the working class like Marxism was. Gender Ideology is a derivative of it called Critical Constructivism. Nolan was wrong to endorse it by casting Ellen Page as a man.

@NoCaparison @CoreyWriting This is the definition that everyone is familiar with in the context of social/political issues. It originated from black people saying “stay woke” to say “be vigilant about social injustice against us, don’t bury your head in the sand.

People are discovering in real time that their hermetically-sealed culture war bubble is not representative of the general population whatsoever. Hopefully, they will apply this lesson onto other future controversies.

@Russ__ATX @ThatchEffendi The pendulum has barely swung yet.

@ThatchEffendi The pendulum is swinging a little too far, but not nearly as bad as peak woke era under Biden.

RIP right-wing cultural moment 2023-2026 It should not have been possible but you were somehow more annoying than woke.

@MattMoco1 @CoreyWriting > How in the world can you think he cast these people because of woke? I want you to explain what Woke is.

@NoCaparison @CoreyWriting Genuinely wtf are you talking about.

The Odyssey discourse perfectly encapsulates why the right is doomed. Every right-wing chud bitched about it for months then went to see it anyway. Some are even coping that it’s secretly based. Meanwhile if Nolan had made White Wakanda he’d be seeking asylum in North Korea rn.

A friend paid a ticked for me to watch Nolan's Odyssey. Despite all of my reservations about the way the movie was marketed, I really wanted to like it. But it was worse than I expected, much worse. The casting and the costumes were the least bad thing about it. Here are some thoughts and an antidote to the movie's gross misunderstanding of the epic's philosophy. 1. The casting was bad. Apart from the obvious examples that have been discussed on X to death, the most bizarre scene was the following: A man asks in Greek, soldiers that are raiding his settlement: 'who are you? Are you the sea peoples?' And an Indian replies in English: 'we are Greeks.' I have to give credit to Matt Damon though for making Odysseus likeable despite Nolan's obsessive attempts to portray him in the most negative light possible. More of that below. 2. There were massive alterations in the story. Some of them were done to save time (e.g., there is no island of the lotus eaters, no Nausicaa and the Phaeacians, etc.) But there were also changes that changed the story so much that the title Anti-Odyssey would be more apt. 3. Throughout the movie, Odysseus is represented as being hated by Zeus (just read the first pages of the epic to see that this is not the case), as being arguably worse than his crew, and as being punished for being THE SUPREME VIOLATOR OF ZEUS' LAW OF HOSPITALITY. Why? Due to the Trojan horse. He is also represented as someone who dishonoured his crew for doing things that just aren't in the epic (e.g., not burying soldiers -that Polyphemus devoured in the epic- while trying to exit the cyclops' cave). This is a gross misunderstanding of the entire Greek lore. If that were the case, Odysseus would not get to return home. Or, he would meet his downfall if he did manage to return home (like Agamemnon who was murdered by his wife and her lover for sacrificing their daughter when he launched the Achaean attack on Troy). Odysseus doesn't represent someone who loved warfare and carnage. He was someone who got caught in it, and contrary to those around him, he devised a stratagem to actually END it as quickly as possible. Of course, it wouldn't be by singing with the Trojans John Lennon's Imagine. This aspect of his cunning/resourcefulness is also obfuscated in the very rushed portrayal of the scene with Polyphemus. 4. Nolan represents Odysseus as having forgotten his mission and his destination to return to Ithaca because he was being fed lotuses by Calypso. And then, to make matters worse, Nolan portrayed Calypso as telling Odysseus that Zeus hates him (perhaps I misheard due to this scene's awful sound) and that she was trying to get him to leave the island. Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. Odysseus NEVER forgot Ithaca. Hence, one of the major themes of the epic is the nostos of Odysseus, his longing to return home. Odysseus NEVER ate the lotuses (some of his men ate them in the island of the Lotus eaters, not the island of Calypso). And Calypso didn't want him to leave the island. He was there for 7 years and he yearned to return to Ithaca despite the sorrow caused to him by his memory. When she was ordered by Zeus, Athena, and Hermes to let him return to Ithaca, she offered him immortality and eternal youth to get him to stay. This is another pillar of the philosophy of the Odyssey that was completely left out of the movie. Furthermore, there was a fabrication. There was no Sinon in the Odyssey. By implication, there was no Sinon among the souls Odysseus spoke to in the underworld. Nolan missed the opportunity to depict one of the most beautiful and philosophically substantive scenes of the Odyssey: that of Odysseus talking with the souls of Achilles and his mother, Anticleia. And why did Nolan miss such an opportunity? To insert a story that wasn't there in the Odyssey to portray Odysseus as having tricked an Ithacan in such a way that it led to his death. 5. And because he missed that, he ALSO missed the fact that in the Odyssey, Odysseus is presented as one of the very few Achaeans who got to return home and reclaim his kingdom BECAUSE of his embodiment of the qualities of Metis (ingenuity/resourcefulness/cunning/wisdom), the goddess whose marriage with Zeus represents the marriage of supreme force with wisdom and then leads him to establish a just order when he won Kronos and the titans. This is what Metis represents and to any extent that Odysseus embodies it, it is certainly not to defy the gods and to be an amoral Machiavellian. 6. Bonus rant: Menelaus is presented as an utter sleazeball and Helen is presented as hating him, which just wasn't there in the epic. The whole thing was a missed opportunity. It could have been much better. I sincerely doubt that those defending it (progressives and conservatives who flip flopped last minute alike) are familiar with Greek mythology.

@nothereasof2022 @michaelbd Everything is beyond you.

@NoCaparison @michaelbd what the fuck are you talking about

@BovrilG Two things that looked stupid even at the time: 1. Achilles spinning his shield 2. soldiers inexplicably launching into the air when the battle lines collided

Troy looks much stupider than I remember when you watch it on a tiny screen with the sound off

@MattPolProf @_CLancellotti > In no small part out of a desire to quash socialist uprisings That's exactly Carlo's point. They tried using fascism to stop socialism until they realized it was bad too. So why, if you're so afraid of fascism, are you always pushing socialism? Are you stupid?

@_CLancellotti The very conservative historian of fascism Stanley Payne chronicles how the monarchy, anti-socialist elites and some "conservative liberals" reconciled themselves to and cooperated with Mussolini's seizure of power. In no small part out of a desire to quash socialist uprisings...

This is a pretty good primer; especially the stress on the role traditional conservative elites played in helping Mussolini and Hitler rise to power. youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlFDT…