PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
A how-to for all of the Dems who wish to up their game.
1.I have yearned for a well-versed, well-read Liberal/Democrat to post a well thought-out, documented, supplemented, attack from their perspective. It would make this site so much more interesting. Sadly, I have yet to find that in these precincts.
So, when Lili Anolik wrote her essay for Vanity Fair….well, credit where credit is due. A great essay, one which all Leftists/Liberals/Democrats should love.....and see as their model.
Of course I can defeat all of it…..but that’s beside the point today.
Let’s break all the rules, or at least rules one and two. Let’s talk about Fight Club. The movie…. stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton playing, respectively, the id, named Tyler Durden, and the superego, named Jack …a man in the midst of an identity crisis…
3. Fight Club is a masterpiece, but a repellent one— Its politics are reactionary; its attitudes toward women crude, Neanderthal even….The usually mild-mannered Roger Ebert declared it “macho porn.” Ebert’s right: It is. Though he’s wrong to see that as a flaw. No, the movie’s explicit misogyny is a source of its unsettling and unsavory greatness. Fight Club is something more than great too. It’s prophetic. To watch it in 2021 is to realize that you were gazing into a crystal ball when you saw it in 1999. The crystal ball checklist: 9/11
Fight Club ends where it begins: with the destruction of those monuments to late-stage American capitalism, i.e., skyscrapers, by a group of terrorists. Two years, almost to the day, after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 1999, the Twin Towers would be reduced to piles of smoldering rubble by a group of terrorists.
5. That may be my favorite part: insightful, pointed, and linked to an example all of us have seen.
This is the sort of literate attack that would make the message board a pleasure. Not just a time-filler….a thinking person’s debate forum, requiring more than “is not, isssssss noooooootttttt!!!”
1.I have yearned for a well-versed, well-read Liberal/Democrat to post a well thought-out, documented, supplemented, attack from their perspective. It would make this site so much more interesting. Sadly, I have yet to find that in these precincts.
So, when Lili Anolik wrote her essay for Vanity Fair….well, credit where credit is due. A great essay, one which all Leftists/Liberals/Democrats should love.....and see as their model.
Of course I can defeat all of it…..but that’s beside the point today.
2. “Fight Club and the 21st Century
How Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and David Fincher foretold 9/11 and Trump.
Let’s break all the rules, or at least rules one and two. Let’s talk about Fight Club. The movie…. stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton playing, respectively, the id, named Tyler Durden, and the superego, named Jack …a man in the midst of an identity crisis…
3. Fight Club is a masterpiece, but a repellent one— Its politics are reactionary; its attitudes toward women crude, Neanderthal even….The usually mild-mannered Roger Ebert declared it “macho porn.” Ebert’s right: It is. Though he’s wrong to see that as a flaw. No, the movie’s explicit misogyny is a source of its unsettling and unsavory greatness. Fight Club is something more than great too. It’s prophetic. To watch it in 2021 is to realize that you were gazing into a crystal ball when you saw it in 1999. The crystal ball checklist: 9/11
Fight Club ends where it begins: with the destruction of those monuments to late-stage American capitalism, i.e., skyscrapers, by a group of terrorists. Two years, almost to the day, after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 1999, the Twin Towers would be reduced to piles of smoldering rubble by a group of terrorists.
4. THE ALT-RIGHT
Like most movements, the alt-right attracts its followers by overtly appealing to their self-righteousness, covertly appealing to their self-pity. The alt-right talks tough, comes on with a swagger and a sneer. Really, though, it’s a cult of victimhood, one big boo-hoo number about how hard it is to be white and male. Says Tyler to his followers: “I see…the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering….an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars.… We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact, and we’re very, very pissed off.” And what are the Space Monkeys, Tyler’s band of proto-fascist foot soldiers, but the original Proud Boys?” Fight Club and the 21st Century5. That may be my favorite part: insightful, pointed, and linked to an example all of us have seen.
This is the sort of literate attack that would make the message board a pleasure. Not just a time-filler….a thinking person’s debate forum, requiring more than “is not, isssssss noooooootttttt!!!”