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#MetaphorPeriodization1980s
#TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
#MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength
#MetaphorWarfareHeroAction
#TheoryCodedMasculinityOverHyper
#IRLActorSylvesterStallone
#IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger
#IRLActorJeanClaudeVanDamme
#IRLActorDolphLundgren
#MetaphorGenerationMillennials
#IRLActorTomHolland
#IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch
#IRLActorEzraMiller e.g. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ezra-miller-on-the-power-of-makeup
#IRLActorRobertPattinson e.g.
#2008_Twilight
#TheoryDeclinism
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #MetaphorVersusImpotenceVirulence
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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@HenryMoranville [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Dans 50 ans, on parlera de #Blanquer comme on parle aujourd'hui de Joseph de Maistre ou de Louis de Bonald, comme on parle de ceux qui au XIXe siècle pensèrent "le progrès comme catastrophe".
#IslamoGauchistes #woke #CancelCulture
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"In 50 years, we will talk about Blanquer as we talk today about Joseph de Maistre or Louis de Bonald, as we talk about those who in the 19th century thought 'progress as a disaster'"
#CatchcryCancelCulture
#TauntIslamoGauchismeIslamoLeftism [Wikipedia]
#IRLHistoricalFigureLouisDeBonald [Wikipedia] "counter-revolutionary philosopher".
#OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREJeanMichelBlanquer [Wikipedia]
#MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury
Context #NewspaperFRBrdshtLiberationSimonBlin: "La nouvelle star des bons gros dossiers déclinistes de Valeurs actuelles, du Point, du Figaro, de Marianne, et des débats sur Europe 1 (version Bollo), CNews ou Sud Radio. [The Minister of National Education has decided to tackle a major problem at the start of the school year. Educational inequalities? No. 'Wokism'. For those who don't know what this is - because they don't have a Twitter account (most people do) - this is the latest topic of ongoing right-wing outrage.]" https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/apres-lislamo-gauchisme-vous-prendrez-bien-un-peu-de-wokisme-20210722_VYPDIOCGO5HTPGP23HJS2GCC24/ #TheoryDeclinism: #MagazineFRValeursActuelles, #MagazineFRLePoint, #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro, #MagazineMarianne, #NMFRCanalPlusCNews, #NMFRSudRadio [Wikipedia] #NMFREurope1 [Wikipedia] #IRLBusinesspersonVincentBollore [Wikipedia]
Context #NewspaperFRBrdshtLiberationSimonBlin: "La nouvelle star des bons gros dossiers déclinistes de Valeurs actuelles, du Point, du Figaro, de Marianne, et des débats sur Europe 1 (version Bollo), CNews ou Sud Radio. [The Minister of National Education has decided to tackle a major problem at the start of the school year. Educational inequalities? No. 'Wokism'. For those who don't know what this is - because they don't have a Twitter account (most people do) - this is the latest topic of ongoing right-wing outrage.]" https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/apres-lislamo-gauchisme-vous-prendrez-bien-un-peu-de-wokisme-20210722_VYPDIOCGO5HTPGP23HJS2GCC24/ #TheoryDeclinism: #MagazineFRValeursActuelles, #MagazineFRLePoint, #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro, #MagazineMarianne, #NMFRCanalPlusCNews, #NMFRSudRadio [Wikipedia] #NMFREurope1 [Wikipedia] #IRLBusinesspersonVincentBollore [Wikipedia]
#IRLHistoricalFigureJosephDeMaistre [Wikipedia]
#MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial
#PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenmentCounterEnlightenment
Context https://merionwest.com/2019/05/15/who-was-joseph-de-maistre-and-why-he-matters-today/ And [digital archives]
Supplementary #MagazineAUQuilletteMattMcManus "conservatives decry postmodernism for undermining belief in traditional epistemological and moral standards. These criticisms are not especially powerful, since they are largely predicated on a nostalgic desire to hold onto those specific standards regardless of their tenability... Postmodern conservatives increasingly regard strong truth claims about knowledge and morality with active suspicion and even hostility. This is because they regard the intellectual and cultural 'elites' who produce knowledge and popularize moral norms as progressive, abstract, and unlikely to sympathize with their concerns. Rather than attempting to formulate alternative claims about knowledge and morality which might have some epistemic and meta-ethical tenability, postmodern conservatives reject even these standards. Instead, they largely appeal to identity as the locus for epistemic and moral validity. This is, in turn, used to rally political support for a given agenda designed to restore that identity to power." https://quillette.com/2018/05/17/emergence-rise-postmodern-conservatism/ #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated
#VlogPlasticPills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVFssgvk4k&t=2s #HandleRedditCriticalTheory [commentary] #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #AdvocacyUSIntercollegiateStudiesInstituteIS https://vintage.isi.org/intercollegiate-review/peter-lawler-postmodern-conservatism/ #EDUUSBerryCollegePeterAugustineLawler [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPHUFideszMagyarPolgariSzovetsegViktorOrban #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TheoryModernityLate #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLPhilosopherFredricJameson [Wikipedia] #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #TheoryPostmodernGrandNarrativeMetanarrative [Wikipedia] #IRLScientistPoliticalYoshihiroFrancisFukuyama #1991_PostmodernismOrTheCulturalLogicOfLateCapitalism [Wikipedia] #TheorySociologySocialFragmentation #PhenomnPolarisation (or, #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue as seems to be a more common conservative characterisation) #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreMusicGrunge #TheoryNihilism #NarrativeBelongingNationalIdentity #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #OrgSyndicateMusicUSNSYNC #2000_ItsGonnaBeMe [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPTeaParty #NMUSBreitbart #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #CampaignLogoBarackObamaO #IdentityLGBTQIASameSexMarriage #PoliticsStatusQuo #TVFirefly [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #OrgClassifPPITLegaPerSalviniPremierLSPMatteoSalvini #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #ToponymEuropeHungary #ToponymEuropePoland #ToponymAmericaNorthUS #ToponymEuropeItaly #ToponymAmericaSouthBrazil #PhenomnBrexitReferendum #ToponymEuropeFrance #ToponymEuropeGermany #2020_WhatIsPostModernConservatismEssaysOnOurHugelyTremendousTimes #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #WebsiteTheConversationLeonorGoncalves "Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which 'runs on serotonin' (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness). The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. ... According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way - we are wired to live in them." https://theconversation.com/psychologist-jordan-peterson-says-lobsters-help-to-explain-why-human-hierarchies-exist-do-they-90489 #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocialLobsterKing #NMUKITVChannel4NewsCathyNewman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54&t=413s #CauseEqualityGenderPayGap
Addendum postmodernism's focus on contingency leads you towards infinite variation i.e. the a priori of the uniquely differentiated individual (where identity is the only commonality). Paradoxically, this is in contradiction with a social-conservative position, which is simultaneously centred around the a priori individualism and the a priori of shared values albeit ones, which are fixed and necessarily unchallengeable (because of their supposed absolute certainty/truth) e.g. 'family values', 'Christian belief' etc. The problem then for social-conservatives is not postmodernism's centring on the individual but in its attacks of what is understood to be sacred/sacrosanct - in short, *tradition*. #TheoryPostmodernContingency #TheoryIndividualismSelfActualisation #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #NarrativeValuesFamily And: #EDUCAMcGillUniversityInternationalReviewMIR https://www.mironline.ca/what-is-post-modern-conservatism/ And? http://politicalcritique.org/world/2018/post-modern-conservatism-or-how-the-right-became-what-it-hated/
Context https://merionwest.com/2019/05/15/who-was-joseph-de-maistre-and-why-he-matters-today/ And [digital archives]
Supplementary #MagazineAUQuilletteMattMcManus "conservatives decry postmodernism for undermining belief in traditional epistemological and moral standards. These criticisms are not especially powerful, since they are largely predicated on a nostalgic desire to hold onto those specific standards regardless of their tenability... Postmodern conservatives increasingly regard strong truth claims about knowledge and morality with active suspicion and even hostility. This is because they regard the intellectual and cultural 'elites' who produce knowledge and popularize moral norms as progressive, abstract, and unlikely to sympathize with their concerns. Rather than attempting to formulate alternative claims about knowledge and morality which might have some epistemic and meta-ethical tenability, postmodern conservatives reject even these standards. Instead, they largely appeal to identity as the locus for epistemic and moral validity. This is, in turn, used to rally political support for a given agenda designed to restore that identity to power." https://quillette.com/2018/05/17/emergence-rise-postmodern-conservatism/ #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated
#VlogPlasticPills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVFssgvk4k&t=2s #HandleRedditCriticalTheory [commentary] #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #AdvocacyUSIntercollegiateStudiesInstituteIS https://vintage.isi.org/intercollegiate-review/peter-lawler-postmodern-conservatism/ #EDUUSBerryCollegePeterAugustineLawler [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPHUFideszMagyarPolgariSzovetsegViktorOrban #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TheoryModernityLate #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLPhilosopherFredricJameson [Wikipedia] #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #TheoryPostmodernGrandNarrativeMetanarrative [Wikipedia] #IRLScientistPoliticalYoshihiroFrancisFukuyama #1991_PostmodernismOrTheCulturalLogicOfLateCapitalism [Wikipedia] #TheorySociologySocialFragmentation #PhenomnPolarisation (or, #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue as seems to be a more common conservative characterisation) #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreMusicGrunge #TheoryNihilism #NarrativeBelongingNationalIdentity #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #OrgSyndicateMusicUSNSYNC #2000_ItsGonnaBeMe [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPTeaParty #NMUSBreitbart #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #CampaignLogoBarackObamaO #IdentityLGBTQIASameSexMarriage #PoliticsStatusQuo #TVFirefly [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #OrgClassifPPITLegaPerSalviniPremierLSPMatteoSalvini #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #ToponymEuropeHungary #ToponymEuropePoland #ToponymAmericaNorthUS #ToponymEuropeItaly #ToponymAmericaSouthBrazil #PhenomnBrexitReferendum #ToponymEuropeFrance #ToponymEuropeGermany #2020_WhatIsPostModernConservatismEssaysOnOurHugelyTremendousTimes #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #WebsiteTheConversationLeonorGoncalves "Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which 'runs on serotonin' (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness). The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. ... According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way - we are wired to live in them." https://theconversation.com/psychologist-jordan-peterson-says-lobsters-help-to-explain-why-human-hierarchies-exist-do-they-90489 #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocialLobsterKing #NMUKITVChannel4NewsCathyNewman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54&t=413s #CauseEqualityGenderPayGap
Addendum postmodernism's focus on contingency leads you towards infinite variation i.e. the a priori of the uniquely differentiated individual (where identity is the only commonality). Paradoxically, this is in contradiction with a social-conservative position, which is simultaneously centred around the a priori individualism and the a priori of shared values albeit ones, which are fixed and necessarily unchallengeable (because of their supposed absolute certainty/truth) e.g. 'family values', 'Christian belief' etc. The problem then for social-conservatives is not postmodernism's centring on the individual but in its attacks of what is understood to be sacred/sacrosanct - in short, *tradition*. #TheoryPostmodernContingency #TheoryIndividualismSelfActualisation #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #NarrativeValuesFamily And: #EDUCAMcGillUniversityInternationalReviewMIR https://www.mironline.ca/what-is-post-modern-conservatism/ And? http://politicalcritique.org/world/2018/post-modern-conservatism-or-how-the-right-became-what-it-hated/
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@SionainnAlexander [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [154]: Tell Cernovich, Jack Posebeic, @benshapiro, @charliekirk11 that theatrical mindgames used to scam mentally impaired soldiers hurt by Oil Wars of Bush tend to come with a Backlash against the Entertainers when they get #woke to the Fraud of Judeo-Christian greed.
@BetsyDeVos [URL redacted]
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