We have drunk the Soma We have become immortals We have gone to the lights We have found the Gods. What could hostility or a man's malice do to us now ?
If I were to compare Lord Ram's masculinity with Lord Krishna's masculinity using a metaphor, one is the still mountain, the other the flowing river. Lord Rama embodies the masculine virtue of stoic endurance, while Lord Krishna embodies the masculine virtue of prevailing.
There’s something called “suspension of disbelief” and it’s necessary for any narrative to be successful, whether it’s a book or a film. One of the strongest professions of faith in the Middle Ages was the “credo quia absurdum est”—“I believe it because it is absurd.” According to this formula, absurdity—the sheer incomprehensibility of something—is actually what makes it (i.e. religion) worth believing. Indeed, it is a test of faith that you can suspend your disbelief and surrender to absurdity and God’s incomprehensible plan.
If you want to understand ideology and tyranny today, this is something you have to grasp. You are forced on a daily basis to believe things that are absurd. This is a test. Diversity is our strength. Standing six feet away from other people will prevent the spread of an airborne respiratory virus. Helen of Troy actually looked like the Predator without its mask on (“You’re one ugly motherfucker,” Dutch snarls…). Etc.
There is nothing subversive or clever about this film. Whatever Jonathan Pageau or that abysmal lisping rape-apologist Tom Holland says, Christopher Nolan is not doing symbolic jiu-jitsu. This film is a pure ruse of power. Every second this woman is on screen and you surrender to the notion she is Helen of Troy—the face that launched a thousand ships—you are literally enslaved to a power that wants to destroy you and your ancestors—not just your stories and traditions, but your actual existence—right back to the beginning. All you have to do is turn your face away and refuse to look.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Ellen Page speaking in a ridiculous put-on deep voice. I watched a black guy call himself a Greek from Ithaca with a straight face. I’ve seen a Helen of Troy I wouldn’t fuck with a gun pointed at my head.
They aren't even Black in the books. George R.R. Martin describes the Velaryons with the exact same pale skin, silver-gold hair, and violet eyes as the Targaryens.
The show changed this to make them stand out. In the novels, because both families look identical, Rhaenyra's kids being bastards is a whispered rumor instead of an obvious joke. obvious to the entire realm.
Eroticism is culture. There's no culture without it. There's no culture above, outside, or against eroticism. A culture is artistic to the degree that it is erotic and nothing besides. This explains the total lack of art in Arabic cultures and modern progressive ones.
C'est quand même dingue qu'un chef d'entreprise propriétaire à 100% de sa boîte puisse être poursuivi pour abus de bien social s'il dépense un epsilon hors du but de l'entreprise écrit dans les statuts, mais qu'un gestionnaire de biens publics (maire etc.) puisse subventionner n'importe quelle ONG de copains sans risque.
Le débat est souvent mal posé.
Le problème, ce n’est pas que 33k brut = ~2 075€ net/mois. Ça, c’est normal.
Le vrai sujet, c’est que pour verser ces 33k brut, l’employeur dépense en réalité 45 489€. Au final, le salarié touche 24 897€.
Plus de 20 000€ d’écart entre le coût du travail et ce qui arrive sur le compte du salarié. C’est ça le vrai débat.
My father-in-law was one of Mussolini's eugenicists. He is insanely gifted. We were in an underground lab together years ago, and I asked him what it would cost to build a foid like this today. I will never forget his answer…
“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
The Hindi word 'Sehra', used for the traditional Indian nuptial decorative veil attached to the groom's headdress, actually comes from Braj Bhasha, which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word Śīrṣahāra (शीर्षहार) meaning 'head garland'.