Saturday 5 September 2015

Battle of the Sexes

…And never a cease-fire.

Summary: The usual Caucasian conflation of the Personal with the Political.

Typical example of the White view that the sex-war is necessarily a set of political battles for supremacy - rather than anything based on equality.

Because White culture is rigidly-hierarchical - rather than egalitarian - it is hardly surprising that personal relationships (ideally, share-and-share-alike) would mimic White political arrangements (ideally, give-and-take) to produce excessive rates of divorce, loneliness, spousal abuse, pornography, alcoholism, etc.

One wonders if Whites actually like each other when watching a movie like this - and if their lack of fulfilling personal relationships explains their difficulty in such social activities as smiling.

The characterization is thin, the story & themes are not well-developed and only the topflight performers keep you watching.

Posted by Frank TALKER™ at 17:00
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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)