Very noticeable how moving to the west and / or ‘becoming westernised’ buffs or debuffs your attractiveness based on your race versus in your home countries. If you ever visit these countries you can see clear differences in average appearance compared to the diasporas
I would have gone much farther than Lomez but they wouldn’t have published him if he had. What haunts them: the specter of a returned Nietzschean right, in light of which all other alternatives look like just bells and whistles adorning the bars of your cage
Would it be right to enslave your identical twin, perform medical experiments on him, suck his blood, and harvest his organs?
We speak of "clones" like they're a sci-fi invention. But they exist naturally, and we generally discourage enslaving and murdering them.
Ben affirms that Helen of Wakanda is beautiful actually and the Odyssey is good because Nolan transposes secular Christian morality over Homeric Greek epic
IMHO, a lot of conservatives are missing the Biblical forest for the woke trees in Nolan's Odyssey. Yes, the casting of Elliot Page is silly and egregious. But here's the thing: Nolan's "The Odyssey" is an apologia for Christian morality poured into a Greek vase.
The entire movie is rooted in what Nolan terms "Zeus' law." That law is: "Treat others as you would want to be treated, because anyone might be a god." Now, clearly, there's nothing like that in Greek mythology. It's not implicit in Homer. It's a direct rip from Biblical morality, substituting "because anyone might be a god" for "because man was made in the image of God."
Nolan then takes this rule and uses it as his moral glue: the idea is that Odysseus, in utilizing the Trojan Horse, violated Zeus' law and led to full-scale slaughter. That sin has led to the unleashing of broader globalized sin (the "sea peoples" who don't respect Zeus' law and are invading surrounding areas). This is a highly Biblical message: that sin is infectious, and that sin also affects the world at large, not just the sinner.
Odysseus has sinned, and he must atone for that sin through self-imposed exile. He must also sacrifice his own aspirations to restore the possibility of a moral universe: because he has unleashed catastrophic violence and violation of Zeus' law -- manifest in the suitors' cynical use of Zeus' law to eat Penelope out of house and home -- he must violate Zeus' law one last time and then accept the penalty, which is exile.
This is a not only a movie that will make millions of people go read classical literature again. It also reinforces the idea that violation of the Golden Rule has disastrous consequences.
I dunno. I'd consider that, on balance, a large-scale win for civilizational values, when weighed against the woke casting of Elliot Page or the dumbass discussion over whether Lupita Nyongo is good-looking enough (she is, and for the record Diane Kruger is German, not Greek).
The Supreme Court agrees. “True representation” is when the leading goal scorer for the US national team was born to Yoruban birth tourists from London
Ream: USMNT a 'true representation of America'
USMNT defender Tim Ream said that the diverse background of the players on the USMNT is "a true representation of what America is."
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@bronzeagemantis Sensitive young men will never live for “platonic love of family and community” without the prospect of romantic love, but of course this malding bridge troll only posts for her delight in demoralizing young men