“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
@the_mel_jar What do you do when someone (or even a patient) feels legitimately ugly, or wishes that they could look like a model? Asking because I think this is a timely issue
A 1940s Nazi would spit something like this:
"America is a Jew-run whorehouse. The pure Nordic stock got mongrelized by Negroes, Slavs and every other inferior. Now they parade faggots, put bitches in uniform and let the kikes own the banks and movies. No discipline, no blood, just soft, rotting democracy. They will fall to the stronger race."
@Gattungswesen25 I think what makes lynch so compelling is how literal and bare faced his stories really are even though it always feels as if they arent
"Marxism *never* developed an ethics."
Never say "never." Michael Lazarus and Vanessa Wills make a strong case that Marx's immanent critique of capitalism has an ethical dimension. In short, the ethical dimension is freedom as self-development through freely associated labor.
Mishima, just like Adorno, is right about this. The bourgeois really *consume* an opera and act like it replenished them. And while they think of this as a class identifier, they absorb it like the lower classes would do with a Netflix show. No reflection, no inspiration.