Faze: “She” and “King Solomon’s Mines” are crazy good, fast-moving narratives – bloody and violent as hell – and blunt about race in the way of their time. Haggard could really tell a tale.
bruce: Chevalier, I would not have told Lee that avenging his father made him a Yankee.
Adar: Secession of itself is not such a bad thing, if done by negotiations in an amicably agreed upon manner with a framework for secession amicably agreed upon. In the case of the American Civil War, this was not the case.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home” A fact which, at the same time, was incidentally true, while also that those who oppose it were impotent against those who seek it. The problem of bad power is not solved by attacking power itself. Telling good men that power is bad is simply another way of guaranteeing that only bad men claim power. An enduring character of almost every modern heresy is this, which is,...
Chevalier de Johnstone: Bruce, Not everyone is an immoral deracinated disloyal Yankee scumbag like you. Some men can overlook their mistreatment by individuals and retain feelings of love and loyalty to their fellow men and their native institutions. Obviously, you wouldn’t know anything about how to be a man of moral virtue and character.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Herman Melville’s fame came long after he was alive to enjoy it. Such will be the case for what truly great writers exist, if any, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The true canon will be formulated only after that presently incumbent power tendering its anti-canon, dies of its own poison.
SB: Norman Lindsay would certainly be called racist in today’s world. Like most Australians of his time, he strongly supported the White Australia Policy, but it is a latter-day stretch to call him right wing. Certainly all racists are today called right wing, but at that time support for whites-only immigration (and eugenics) was a common policy for those who considered themselves socialists.
Bruce: Lighthorse Harry Lee, Mars Robert’s father, died after years of fear and pain from torture inflicted by a pro-1812 war right-wing Southern mob in Baltimore. Lee was obviously a strong Confederate, but as a Virginian he had a strong family loyalty, and when right-wing Southerners died in, say, Pickett’s charge, well, okay. No doubt he felt a professional regret that troops under his command died.
Adept: Zizek doesn’t really rate, I think. He’s basically a Hegel scholar and a commentator. His modus operandi is to interpret modern forms (for e.g. political structures,) through Hegel — and, when in doubt, to use Lacanian critical theory to interpret and broaden the oeuvre of Hegel. So Zizek is not a terribly original thinker. His archetype is that of the disciple. I don’t think that there are any really noteworthy 20th century philosophers. Wittgenstein had one good idea, a...
Contaminated NEET: “Post-truth.” ; No, we’re not post-truth, we’re post-automatically-belie ving-your-bullshit. The propaganda that comes out of the official mainstream respected authorities is not synonymous with truth.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: But of course, it’s easy to understand what all the fuss was about, most certainly never the less tempestuous to date, which the writer self-consciously passivates, both out of fear, and hope: ‘hahah, look at how silly this all was, cant we put all this sillyness behind us, my fellow thoughtful free-thinking liberals?’ Naturally, acknowledging the reality that gens has something to do with virtu would have wide ranging implications; for example, it could implicate...
Pseudo-Chrysostom: David Foster, That’s buying the rhetoric which cloaks the animating impulse. It’s only natural that bad dudes will simply try to lie about what they are doing for advantage. Woman-like qualities are endemic amongst many of those observed as happening to be doing leftism, such as their solipsism; verbally expressed desires often having little to no relationship with their animating impulses, such that they can shift and twist back on each other as easy as the wind, with no...
Albion: We used to believe in Descartes’ dictum of “I think, therefore I am,” but today the tendency is more, “I feel, therefore I am right.” Thanks to Tinterwebz, everyone can now feel, and declare those feelings with added venom. Until the collective reaches a balance (and with it, encourage people to return to individual thinking and rational analysis) we will have to endure some spectacular emotional fireworks.
Roo_ster: Feminization and late-stage putrescent liberalism for the win. And by liberalism I mean the whole liberal enlightenment project. When the ultimate liberal power enables mass-slaughter to push globohomo financialized buttseks on Eurasia in the name of “Democracy,” you know liberalism has exhausted any useful energy and is merely hte rotting zombie of its former self. Please, someone put a pike through its skull.
David Foster: “shift from a collectivistic to an individualistic focus”….this seems odd. Virtually all public communications today refers to “communities” ; rather than to individuals…not ‘this program is better for black people” or “we need to help homeless people”, but “better for the black community” or “help the homeless community.”
Bob Sykes: We plainly live in a matriarchy. How long before we start sacrificing kings to guarantee our crops?
Freddo: Gotta be Al Gore for inventing the internet and global warming.
Bruce: The dogs-rat pit fight scene in Saberhagen’s excellent ‘The Holmes-Dracula File’ is great. I can’t think of any other Holmes pastiche from the Hansoms of John Clayton I’d prefer, and if Saberhagen hadn’t also written ‘The Dracula Tapes’ TH-DF would be the best Stoker pastiche too.