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And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. –Numbers, 22:23 The notorious Google memo Gizmodo calls an “anti-diversity screed” (elsewhereContinue reading “Don’t be Google”

The project to erase the West–globalism, multiculturalism, critical race theory, the “Narrative”–is like a revolutionary army that’s advanced too far too fast. It is stretched thin. It’s gotten too far out ahead of popular acquiescence and demographic change. The unified horror of the vast mainstream of punditry in reaction to Trump’s Poland speech revealed the extent to which theContinue reading “A Narrative’s Progress”

The controversy regarding the whiteness of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk was predictable enough. I imagine at this point it’s routine for studios to take into consideration the now inevitable controversy surrounding any story deemed “too white”.The films we get are watered down or ruined by an increasingly harsh regime of representation, but the greater effect is whatContinue reading “Abandoning the Bitches”

Capitalism is the ultimate conqueror, because it has nothing to defend. Tethered to no principle, place or people, it is infinitely adaptable. It thrives under nationalism as well as revolution (as in the triumphant anti-nationalist revolutionary phase we’re in now), in peace as well as chaos. It’s less a system of integrated parts than itContinue reading “Rant”

Eight long months running a convenience store earned a Korean eight years hard time after he shot fleeing shoplifter Jakeel Mason in the back: Mason went into the store last week after Kim went outside to tell a group of loitering men to go away, prosecutors say. Surveillance video shows Mason trying to steal cigarettes behind theContinue reading “Fear, Hate and the Narrative”

A few days ago I posted on the subject of comedy. To continue on that subject. A sort of personal fad of mine right now is the idea of art as essentially liberation–not catharsis freeing us from our repressive selves, but from our repressive systems. I don’t mean to, and I don’t think it’s theContinue reading “Art and Power”

[I keep toying with this turd]Thou are right, O Lord, very right.Thou hast condemned us justly. “Bear with me. My story requires a bit of preface. ” Alex said. “I might try your patience. Even if what they used to call storytellers still existed, I wouldn’t be one. The ability to tell a story withContinue reading “Fictional Friday”