Category: culture
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[link] Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren’t Violence
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren’t Violence (Berryhill)
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[opinion] The Role of Art and Culture – Part 1
![[opinion] The Role of Art and Culture – Part 1](https://dappledthingscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/159258.png?w=780)
What is the difference between situation A and situation B? We are seeing two different depictions of two interactions. One is that of a consumer receiving (education, enlightenment, entertainment); the other is that of a consumer giving or responding (complaints, compliments). These pictures also depict the difference between two types of cultural productions: one in…
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[link] PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet (Farrington on Quillette)
“PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet” (Farrington)
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[YT] Infinity War Trailer (my reaction)
I first need to begin with the caveat that my interaction with fandom has always been rather peculiar – in the sense that I have always been more interested in the side characters of a story than the actual main characters. Take Lord of the Rings, for example. My favorite characters were Legolas and Faramir.…
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[opinion] The Activist Spectrum
Activism is all well and good, but, as with criticism, there is constructive and not constructive (what I will call destructive). I would argue that constructive and destructive activism are, perhaps, part and parcel of human activity and protest. Is any faction free from destructive activities or association with destructive activities? And if there is…
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https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/04/13/12-ways-to-use-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals-against-liberals-n917872
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[response] Lord of the Rings and Racism
![[response] Lord of the Rings and Racism](https://dappledthingscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/csizs.jpg?w=1024)
I want to write about this in more detail at a later date – but I have to say that the recent Wired interview with Andy Duncan once again highlights how the Academic Academic regressive left have no idea how to (and therefore have no right to) talk about mythology. Just Google search this terrible…
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