Sounds like you might enjoy people being honest to you rather than enjoying compliments or criticism. Criticism is more blunt when said to someone’s face, but compliments can seem disingenuous, so maybe you don’t believe the compliments subconsciously
Lucifer’s Hebrew name is Helel!
He’s a capitalist, he should know buying out competition would be preferable to destroying them and letting the capital go to waste
But the fascists themselves at least claimed to be a third way beyond liberalism and socialism which they saw as ineffective right? Even before the petit bourgeois started backing them
Isn’t that how fascism got its start? The sentiment that socialists were ineffective and indecisive, and taking advantage of the vacuum left by conflicts between socialists and liberals…also that is as much on liberals refusing to compromise leftwards as the contrapositive
I like when authors are intentional about their stories like this.
People bring up Tolkien’s “applicability not allegory” or death of the author, or just defend their treats against being apparently politicized. But people politicize, interpret, and re-mythologize things anyways. Tolkien’s stories have been coopted by European nationalists to fight the “orcs” of the “East.”
A similar thing with Dune, people fixate on the environment aspect or exaggerated brutality and oppression by imperialists hence Star Wars, Warhammer, etc. I guess. I find it weird. The point was or should be the struggle for liberation and the power of ideology.
Might as well be on the nose about things as an author IMO, seems annoying to deal with
Also: was Dune about Palestine? I thought it was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, so the Arab Revolt. Maybe the Great Game
I think there must be or have been. Corporate policies always have strict measures to make sure fired employees don’t take out their anger before they leave
Other thing I can think of is that not many people would be willing to throw away their lives or their loved ones’ by doing something that can hurt them even more than losing their job (the brutal reprisal of capital). I can really only think of very desperate or disturbed people like the Unabomber
or people joining hands through unionization and striking where they can have more confidence and hope. Sometimes that erupts into real violence, like the Battle of Blair Mountain
The metric of economic organization is just dollars then??
What’s with the date references lately? How am I supposed to remember all these dates?
9/11 I can understand but why tf would I memorize Jan 6 and Oct 7 etc
I agree that Sokka can grow in other ways. But the worldbuilding argument doesn’t seem right to me.
Bending is more than combat for one, more like an extension of real human abilities (though within believed human abilities of our world ie. we also have magical thinking if not magical reality).
The world can change if we can actually, materially shape the world with magic rather than manipulate other people. So yes, a world with bending with be a materially different world. But everything prior to action is still relevant. What I mean is that people still manipulate or exploit action, magical or not. Eg. there could still be patriarchy to exploit women for reproductive labor, exclude them from the warrior class who solely gets sanctioned to do violence, etc.
The fact that woman can bend as well as men doesn’t need to make them socially equal, just like in our world they are socially oppressed nonetheless
Phrases like “American Dream” and “Manifest Destiny” are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.
No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.
I think it’s just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies “allowed” indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there’s no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I’ve heard of. So it’s just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.
One time someone said something and I misheard them, so the sentence sounded ungrammatical and nonsensical to me, like something beyond my conventional understanding of the world thus far. I instantly lost my sanity
One time I smiled at this kid with a little too much teeth showing and he ran off screaming so fast to his mommy
One thing I don’t like about horror is when the villain has a tragic past. I mean I get that, horror from the very beginning as a genre was about tragedy or social injustice. But it feels uneasy when the conclusion is that oppressed people turn into bloodthirsty monsters who must be slain because of their trauma. Maybe I’m missing something there
The problem with induction is it works while it works, but when it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. It’s all circular reasoning.
A hydrated person is hydrated because they hydrate themselves habitually. A dehydrated person is dehydrated because they dehydrate themselves habitually.
The word water doesn’t even come up in the above. And no consideration of what happens if you strand a hydrated person in the desert: they can’t hydrate, so are they still a hydrated person?
They’re mentioning both. The “good one” is ATLA and the Cameron one is the blue alien one
No worries! Nietzsche’s philosophy is just a pretty tricky subject in general, maybe the most in the field. I just wanted to drop in a comment about that
Nietzsche hated Nazis though , or at least would have. He’s a complicated guy who hates everyone though. He said some shit for sure, but he’s one of those philosophers everyone interprets to death. The Nazis definitely interpreted him very poorly though, likely on purpose.
leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books
This is fucking racist
The Avatar worldview. The James Cameron one, not the good one
Yeah sure ATLA certainly has no black and white message about the consequences of industrialism and imperialism on pre-industrial societies.
I’m second panel unfortunately. I’m trying to research the evolution of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. But any resources outside of Romance and maybe Germanic is so hard to find, especially if you’re not a linguistics student at a university…
Living next to a straight major road is annoying. I’ve lived in a couple places like this near the richer neighborhoods. Rich assholes keep racing their sports cars very late into the night.
I brought it up with neighbors but they just turn into Karens and call the police, who do jack shit. I’ve considered throwing some spikes on the road lol but I don’t wanna screw up the tires of everyone who passes by