There's a lot to go over and consider in recent Owen Benjamin videos on a multitude of topics, including his recent one on how creepy Joe Biden, and "Aquaman" Momoa are. One thing I want to address soon is Magick, but right now I'm going to discuss a term I've used before, one I picked up from Eric Raymond, namely, "killing the Buddha" [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2658]: > Find the premise, or belief, or piece of received knowledge that is most important to you right at this moment,…
Prelude (To “The Departmental Ditties”) by Rudyard Kipling I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease, – One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas? I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people’s mirth, In jesting guise – but ye are wise, And ye shall know what the jest is worth.…
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So discussing the ugliness [https://thelastredoubt.com/beware-the-bandersnatch/], the propaganda and "sophisticated" writing faults [https://thelastredoubt.com/modern-entertainment/], and the ugliness disguised as beauty [https://thelastredoubt.com/while-the-ugliness-is-fairly-new/] as I have been, I thought one more item needed to be looked at. I'm not sure where I most recently heard it, but was reminded of the expression "cult of the child" in regards to several tendencies, mostly parents ca…
The propaganda isn't. Not by a long shot. It is no secret that a number of writers in Hollywood were outright communists back in the days of the much villainized McCarthy, and that drips and drabs of propaganda were inserted back then, even if they rarely had the chance to make the entire movie anti-american. I've discussed before [https://thelastredoubt.com/the-fiddler-on-roof-and-throwing/] how even older plays and movies like Fiddler on the Roof were steeped in culture-destroying pro-communis…