On the one hand, two wealthy, successful men living their lifelong dreams get called a horrible name at the Baftas
On the other, a man with a lifelong, life-crippling neurological condition now held up for global mockery.
Hard not to see this as the endpoint of identity politics
@francis_gooding @LRB I found your lack of interest in the biological repercussions of incest (and their role in the origins of the prohibition) made your line of enquiry foggy and confused. Their origins don’t seem complicated to me?
The reason PRINCESS MONONOKE presents modernity and industrialization as being beneficial to many people despite their horrible impact is because modernity and industrialization are, in fact, beneficial to a lot of people, despite their horrible impact.
@keysmashbandit I think it’s very well written and performed but it also made the front portion of my brain sort of tingle in anger and I think that surge of feeling knocked me out of a decade-long depression.
@AllyFogg That falling intonation on “easy Germany territory” is so reassuring and British — why don’t we do that anymore? It conveys a wonderfully serene sense of “well what can you do?”
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this but feel like the 'Britain's uniquely shit' Twitter takes ('rainy fascist island' etc) are often as parochial as the jingoistic fantasies.