The writers for Yellowjackets were clearly inspired by The Bacchae. Occasionally it flips from being an overwrought melodrama to being a brutal adaptation of dionysian ritual.
Noah 2014 is a cowardly film. If you are going to go outside the Genesis narrative then you should go full book of Enoch and get wild with it. This middle ground sucks. It annoys the fundamentalist Christians while not being fun for anyone else.
The Suicide Squad Isekai is a deeply weird cultural artifact. It's the culmination of several long chains of influence hoping the Pacific multiple times across decades.
The show itself seems a bit mid, but you could write a fascinating book tracing back all the influences to their origin points.
I'm dying internally after asking a lesbian in an excited tone "Have you seen Hundreds of Beavers?"
I was asking about the movie with that title, but they started laughing at me before I could explain.
You arrive in heaven. Before you stands The Lord, filthy and sweat soaked, wearing dingy tattered overalls. He gives you a once over while chewing contemplatively on a piece of straw. He drawls in an accent dripping with Savannah, “Does a boy get to whitewash a fence everyday, my child?”
Thinking about when a friend of Swinburne took him in and gave him a comfortable life. Swinburne never wrote great poetry after that. His friend said "I saved the man but killed the poet."
Swinburne is my favorite poet, but I'm glad. He deserved happiness more than we deserve his poetry.
Average song about a woman written by a man: a woman is like a particularly good kind of truck.
Average song about a woman written by a woman: my relationship with her is a combination of worshipful and erotic like unto that of Hosea with Jehovah.
"The spirit of outlaw country is alive today in Canadian pop stars introducing that sound into country music" - some country musician on the radio
I'm leaving this planet...
"In the image of television, the most beautiful prototypical object of this new era, the surrounding universe and our very bodies are becoming monitoring screens."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
They veer off in a relativist direction with this paragraph. What do you mean there are no bad values? Racial purity seems like a bad value, but I can't say it hasn't been carefully examined by many racists.
I find this section very pernicious given the reason the students are forced to do this module. It's suggesting that the protestors have been hijacked by other people's values and didn't really believe in what they were doing.
"When one doesn’t know their own values, it becomes difficult to live by their own values and easy
to adopt other people’s values without realizing it. Lack of knowledge or clarification about one’s
own values may lead people to make decisions contrary to what is important to them."
“In order to return to the university, some students would be required to complete a 49-page set of reading and tasks — “modules” — known as the Ethos Integrity Series, geared at helping participants “make gains” in “moral reasoning” and “ethical decision making.”” 🧐
I'm working on making a relationship with some local bee keepers. They've said I can get a discount on honey if I give them a bottle of mead every once in a while. I think I'll give them some dandelion mead a month from now and see what kind of discount I get.
This is by far the clearest explanation of the unity of opposites we get from Heraclitus. For Heraclitus opposites are necessarily connected to one another, otherwise they could not truly be opposites they would just be unrelated. This tension is at the core of his processual metaphysics.
#philsky
They do not comprehend how a thing agrees at variance with itself; it is an attunement turning back on itself, like that of the bow and the lyre. - Heraclitus
They do not comprehend how a thing agrees at variance with itself; it is an attunement turning back on itself, like that of the bow and the lyre. - Heraclitus
The first episode shows the hero beating goblin children to death with a stick while explaining that he has to do it because they have evil blood. Saying the 14 words on repeat for half an hour would somehow be more subtle.
The anime Goblin Slayer is one of the most fascist pieces of media I've ever seen. It's so blatant that I thought it might be a parody at first. It's not a parody. It's literally about why genocide is good and necessary to protect women's innocence.
The anime Goblin Slayer is one of the most fascist pieces of media I've ever seen. It's so blatant that I thought it might be a parody at first. It's not a parody. It's literally about why genocide is good and necessary to protect women's innocence.
