Sunday 27 August 2017

Paper Towns
(2015)


Summary: Whites looking to find themselves within the limitations of their superficial culture.

Is there a culture, anywhere in the world, whose adherents have no idea who they are and must waste their lives finding out; instead of living their lives to the full? Does White culture not provide this information from the get-go? - and when Whites have problems, does that culture not offer them any help?

The more interesting story here is the one not being told; what happens off‑screen when Cara DELEVINGNE is not to be seen - which, as it happens, is for most of the movie. Why did the screenwriters not tell that story? - the story of someone trying to find themselves? It is because they have nothing to say about it, because they do not understand the life they have not lived and, therefore, can have no meaningful insights into it. Who does understand anything they have not experienced, after all?

All of the characters are desperately alike one another; matching the personal uniformity one frequently sees with Whites, yet without any genuine dramatic exploration of their inner selves that would reveal any actual difference between them; leaving us with the queasy feeling that there really is no difference.

Sunday 20 August 2017

Dawg
(2002)


Let joy be confined

Summary: Yet More Caucasian Self‑Alienation.

Amusing, if contrived, road‑movie sex‑comedy marred by the reactionary sexual‑politics so typical of White Christians; viz, that sex is really only for procreation and that any simple pleasure aimed at any other purpose is to be scorned.

Not content with the have-their-cake-and-eat-it mentality of visually‑indulging in the very carnal activity that is being relentlessly decried as shallow and superficial, the film also offers the hypocritical notion that women are somehow being used and exploited for the sexual activity that they also crave. Given the natural immodesty of women, this is a viewpoint not supported by the life experience of those not wedded to religious ideology and crypto‑fundamentalism.

White people’s attempt to repress their sexuality makes them far more conscious of sex - like trying to remember to forget something. This makes them more sexual than would normally be the case because of the syndrome of forbidden fruit apparently tasting sweeter.

Modesty is forced upon White women, in White culture, by White men because – in capitalist countries – sex interferes with business. Women are forever fighting this restraint because it represses their nature; their natural tendency being toward boldness in dress and openness in conversation.

Are White women really incapable of enjoying sex for its own sake, without expecting recreational‑sex to be more fulfilling than it ever could be? And, if they are, why do they then persist in sleeping with such unsuitable candidates for the more serious sexual relationships they claim to want? Do they possess no objective criteria for correctly judging the character of others – nor even their own?

The central male character has no real problem to address, since he does not feel his life lacks anything of any real value to him; making the drama too flat and goal‑less for its own good. He enjoys sex‑for‑pleasure and feels no genuine shame nor regret about this. Here, he is merely being condescended‑to and lectured‑at by vengeful women who believe - without evidence - that they are worth more than just a roll‑in‑the‑hay: White women who cannot find Mr Right because they do not know how to, nor even of how to be Miss Right; resulting in a false epiphany as a climax to a film as superficial as its heterosexually‑motivated male lead.

This sexual dishonesty is fueled, compounded & then re‑fueled by feminine whining and self‑pity regarding youthful sexual experiences, that they are presented as being unable to psychologically get‑over and move‑on from. The lack of any chemistry between the two leads also inadvertently reinforces the White tendency to talk about sex rather than just get on with life and simply enjoy their bodies by communicating their pleasures to each other and their honest reasons for engaging in such potentially‑joyful activity.

Here, Whites engage in sexual intercourse as a substitute for masturbation (as if wanking were a sin), that relives sexual tension more than it offers a means of sharing one of the many and varied pleasures of being human. There is a terrible, underlying sense, here, that Whites believe sex is something bad and that people can (&, indeed, should) only do it if they can fake emotions as often as they fake orgasms – as if physical pleasure could somehow be separated from love; love somehow separated from self‑esteem.

The odd conflation, here, of naturally‑selfish solo masturbation with sexual‑intercourse - a naturally‑sharing one, makes this a less interesting comedy than it could have been precisely because this all‑important issue is comedically‑unexplored here. By trying to rise above their human instincts, Whites render themselves passionless, sexually‑neuter &, like the eunuch, unable to live fully‑human lives; while continuing to absurdly‑pretend such self‑repression is some kind of gateway to eventual personal fulfillment.

Despite their Master Race pretensions, Whites are reminded of their humanity by a sexuality they attempt to downplay. For White people, sex is the equalizer since, no matter how hard they try to feel superior to others, it is always clear that they have exactly the same feelings as everyone else – no more and, often, much less.

Thus, for example, one is constantly bombarded with sex scenes in Hollywood movies showing White couples crashing through bedroom doors tearing at each others clothes; as if sex were some kind of ungovernable instinct that Whites are actually frightened of, of which they wish to be immediately relieved by temporarily giving themselves license to indulge in, as a concession to human nature, rather than as an enjoyable exploration and full embracing of it.

This self‑repressive behavior leads Whites to voluntarily being in conflict with their own natures: A perpetual conflict designed to prove White superiority, when compared to others, but which merely proves their inbred stupidity – when compared to those same others. Self‑repression is also designed to make Whites dependent upon each other for the emotional support a crutch provides in the physical world, since their socializing with People Of Color (POC) will only lead to the resentment occasioned by the realization that others actually enjoy being alive and enjoy being human.

The lack of any psychologically‑healthy characters in this movie (nor any decent dramatic exploration of the unhealthy ones), along with no compelling exploration of the pleasure human beings obtain from sex (one‑night stands, affairs, committed relationships, etc) would make it completely unbearable if it had not been for the movie’s brevity and the many amusing moments along the way.

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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.