pretty sad that kids get a better lesson in local politics from Batman than their teachers. what generation after generation with zero material analysis gets ya: agreeable diffidence.
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Monday, March 07, 2022
Sam Amidon LILY-O (2014)
lotta liberals out here raising police budgets and decrying fascism, truly too dumb to be liars.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
A histrionic fever dream, entirely unhelpful to educating Americans, who can only recognize the most overt and cartoonish elements of fascism. Were Roth any sort of curious historian, he could have tackled how certain American and British financial elites helped fund the fledgling Nazi Party, or more importantly, could have written compellingly about the way we protected hundreds of Nazi officers and scientists from prosecution in order to use them against the USSR. Much of Nazi ideology was formed in the U.S. and it didn't disappear when they did. In fact, it was accelerated to destabilize any nation contemplating land reform, nationalizing resources, or operating outside U.S. hegemony. Instead of reading this, I beg you to read Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/...
"Freedom and liberation are an unending task."
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
A histrionic fever dream, entirely unhelpful to educating Americans, who can only recognize the most overt and cartoonish elements of fascism. Were Roth any sort of curious historian, he could have tackled how certain American and British financial elites helped fund the fledgling Nazi Party, or more importantly, could have written compellingly about the way we protected hundreds of Nazi officers and scientists from prosecution in order to use them against the USSR. Much of Nazi ideology was formed in the U.S. and it didn't disappear when they did. In fact, it was accelerated to destabilize any nation contemplating land reform, nationalizing resources, or operating outside U.S. hegemony. Instead of reading this, I beg you to read Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/...
"Freedom and liberation are an unending task."
Sunday, March 06, 2022
Sam Amidon I SEE THE SIGN (2010)
Sam makes a devastating cameo for a verse of a song in CYRANO, a daring triumph of a film. This collection of covers has been a comforting stand-by for me over the years, Relief being the song that puts me back on my feet when I think I'm down for the count.
Friday, March 04, 2022
The Weather Station HOW IS IT THAT I SHOULD LOOK AT THE STARS (2022)
something went wrong when we stopped hearing churchbells, when the hour first went unrung
Driving on the Rim by Thomas McGuane
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
McGuane can craft a helluva sentence. Maybe books should be written in Montana but edited in Utah, if you catch my drift.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
McGuane can craft a helluva sentence. Maybe books should be written in Montana but edited in Utah, if you catch my drift.
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