"Forrest Gump" (1994) is an allegory of the Baby Boomer generation's remarkable gullibility. Forrest himself repreresents the archetypal Boomer, drifting through a succession of media-propagated narratives, embracing each with unwavering confidence, never troubled by scepticism, never inconvenienced by curiosity. Elvis shaking his pelvis, the polio injection, the assassination of Ku Klux Kennedy, the Vietnam War, AIDS——one lie after another, each accepted with the same unquestioning faith.
The film is a devastating mockery of an entire generation. The audience is coaxed into admiring Forrest, into recognising itself in him, whilst the film quietly says, "This is you", and every tribute paid to his gullibility doubles as a rebuke to those who identify with him.
The Baby Boomer generation is invited to identify itself with an idiot who is distinguished above all by unquestioning belief, and is rewarded so lavishly that the audience never suspects the compliment to be an insult.
The compliment is perfectly courteous; the knife is inserted with the same courtesy.
Negribu salīdzīnāt Niksonu ar LV kolhozu saimniekiem Lembergu, Šķēli etc., bet šeit manāmas interesantas kultūras paralēles starp "Rīdzenes" sarunām un ASV būmeriem/Votergeitas mitoloģiju.
Vai "Rīdzenes" sarunas ir īstas?
Kad Valdis Zatlers ierosināja atlaist Saeimu, "Ir" žurnālistei Evelīnai Paulai Vāverei bija tikai astoņi gadi. 3. oktobrī viņa ies vēlēt Saeimu, tāpēc palūdza "Ir" komentētājam Paulam Raudsepam izskaidrot, kas notika 2011. gadā, ko oligarhi runāja viesnīcā Rīdzene un kāpēc tas joprojām ir svarīgi.
Kur lasīt oligarhu sarunas?
📲 brīvpieejā https://t.co/GX8sdAP7Wn
🗞️ žurnāla "Ir" speciālizlaidumā, kas pieejams preses tirdzniecības vietās
@FistedFoucault RWers are too retarded to realise that integration is a BAD thing and the only thing that keeps nice things nice is the fact that minorities haven’t yet integrated enough to start camping, hiking, going to the symphony, drinking in hipster coffee shops etc.
ADDENDUM: These same DUMMIES are the ones obsessed with ''CRIME RATES'' and ''IQ'' etc. I'm supposed to be STOKKED at the prospect of being ethnically cleansed by Han Chinese or Hindus because they don't generally ROB people at knifepoint or break into your car and they game the system well enough to score high on meaningless standardized tests.
Reason 1,000,001 why ''CONSERVATISM'' is the zenith of STUPID-ON-PURPOSE intellectual dishonesty and passive-aggressive hostility.
Denmark publishes crime by country of origin, not nationality. I looked at 2021-2025 data.
Overall: Somali-origin 7.8x the Danish rate. American-origin 0.34x.
Thread of Top Five and Bottom Five.
Seeing whites, who conquered the entire world, as some sort of innocent hobbit people is perhaps the most incredible self-image role reversible of al time. The leftist view of whiteness as some sort of supernatural force behind conquest & domination is less wrong.