“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
A psychotic pro-Semite named Gert Just loves with the Devil to flirt. His thinking perverse Makes the world that much worse For Gert's mind is a wellspring of dirt!
The aroma of shit is a blessing If it comes from an ass worth caressing But the odor of poo Whn it comes from a Jew Ain't naught but a stinky brown messing!
You should know by now that bcause I am militantly ANTI-PC, I often choose to make outrageous, studiedly offensive remarks.
I may not always MEAN wha I say, but I would defend to the death my right –– and everyone lse's to say whatever they feel like saying.
PC means DEATH to our First Amendment, DEATH to honesty, and WELCOME to institutionalized HYPOCRISY and unspeakabe COERCION by AUTORITARIANS on every level.
I thought it was brilliant! Arthur Fleck could be any man transformed into a Joker. It wasn't his own bad decision making that led to the metamorphosis, his emergence was predestined by the irresponsible decisions of government elites like Bruce Wayne.
*Thomas Wayne. Bruce is the kid that grows up to become Batman after his parents are killed (and they weren't killed by the Joker)
Take note of who Joker does kill. Three people who assaulted him without provocation. His mother who allowed a former boyfriend to savagely beat him as a small child and lied to him about who his father is. A former co-worker that got him fired from his job. A late night TV host who brought him on the show to humiliate him. And his psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum.
...or an exchange of executive agency for the administrators/ enforcers of "The Law".
from the Jowett introduction to Plato's "Laws"
The executive of Plato's Laws, like the Athenian, was different from that of a modern civilized state. The difference chiefly consists in this, that whereas among ourselves there are certain persons or classes of persons set apart for the execution of the duties of government, in ancient Greece, as in all other communities in the earlier stages of their development, they were not equally distinguished from the rest of the citizens. The machinery of government was never so well organized as in the best modern states. The judicial department was not so completely separated from the legislative, nor the executive from the judicial, nor the people at large from the professional soldier, lawyer, or priest. To Aristotle (Pol.) it was a question requiring serious consideration—Who should execute a sentence? There was probably no body of police to whom were entrusted the lives and properties of the citizens in any Hellenic state. Hence it might be reasonably expected that every man should be the watchman of every other, and in turn be watched by him. The ancients do not seem to have remembered the homely adage that, 'What is every man's business is no man's business,' or always to have thought of applying the principle of a division of labour to the administration of law and to government. Every Athenian was at some time or on some occasion in his life a magistrate, judge, advocate, soldier, sailor, policeman. He had not necessarily any private business; a good deal of his time was taken up with the duties of office and other public occupations. So, too, in Plato's Laws. A citizen was to interfere in a quarrel, if older than the combatants, or to defend the outraged party, if his junior. He was especially bound to come to the rescue of a parent who was ill-treated by his children. He was also required to prosecute the murderer of a kinsman. In certain cases he was allowed to arrest an offender. He might even use violence to an abusive person. Any citizen who was not less than thirty years of age at times exercised a magisterial authority, to be enforced even by blows. Both in the Magnesian state and at Athens many thousand persons must have shared in the highest duties of government, if a section only of the Council, consisting of thirty or of fifty persons, as in the Laws, or at Athens after the days of Cleisthenes, held office for a month, or for thirty-five days only. It was almost as if, in our own country, the Ministry or the Houses of Parliament were to change every month. The average ability of the Athenian and Magnesian councillors could not have been very high, considering there were so many of them. And yet they were entrusted with the performance of the most important executive duties. In these respects the constitution of the Laws resembles Athens far more than Sparta. All the citizens were to be, not merely soldiers, but politicians and administrators.
I too thought the Joker movie was brilliant. As a lifelong Batman fan, I thought this portrayal of Joker adequately answers the question "why won't Batman kill the Joker and be done with the crazy bastard?"
I also like the questions that arise watching the movie from a Szaszian ("mental illness is a myth") perspective. Which the movie kinda rams down your throat. If the Joker is "crazy" you don't have rebut his perspective with more than 4 syllables (you're fuckin nuts). But if you have to understand the Joker... wow...psychology as acience.
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As Queen Victoria said of Gilbert and Sullivan, I wull say of this Joker creature:"We are not amused."
Pop Culture is really POOP KULTCHAH. It is unspeakably vile, and has turned the entire Western world into an immense OPEN CESSPIT.
P______H______E______W______!
So what did you think of Parasite?
So what did you think of Parasite?
And still you maintain a straight face when the house idiot farts. Practice makes perfect, obviously. ;-)
The presence of a stinking Jew
Makes bloggersr retch and then shout "PHEW!"
I wish my sh*t didn't stink... but like everyone elses's...
Phew!
A psychotic pro-Semite named Gert
Just loves with the Devil to flirt.
His thinking perverse
Makes the world that much worse
For Gert's mind is a wellspring of dirt!
The aroma of shit is a blessing
If it comes from an ass worth caressing
But the odor of poo
Whn it comes from a Jew
Ain't naught but a stinky brown messing!
"For Gert's mind is a wellspring of dirt!"
Look, I'm British. I *like* irony. But this is a bit rich even for my blood.
Hi, Jez.
You should know by now that bcause I am militantly ANTI-PC, I often choose to make outrageous, studiedly offensive remarks.
I may not always MEAN wha I say, but I would defend to the death my right –– and everyone lse's to say whatever they feel like saying.
PC means DEATH to our First Amendment, DEATH to honesty, and WELCOME to institutionalized HYPOCRISY and unspeakabe COERCION by AUTORITARIANS on every level.
FJ:
Am I right in saying you rather like 'Joker'? ;-)
I thought it was brilliant! Arthur Fleck could be any man transformed into a Joker. It wasn't his own bad decision making that led to the metamorphosis, his emergence was predestined by the irresponsible decisions of government elites like Bruce Wayne.
*Thomas Wayne. Bruce is the kid that grows up to become Batman after his parents are killed (and they weren't killed by the Joker)
Take note of who Joker does kill. Three people who assaulted him without provocation. His mother who allowed a former boyfriend to savagely beat him as a small child and lied to him about who his father is. A former co-worker that got him fired from his job. A late night TV host who brought him on the show to humiliate him. And his psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum.
Revenge?
I thought it was brilliant!
I haven't seen it yet.
Revenge?
A return to pre-Oresteian "justice."
...and yes, Thomas Wayne.
...or an exchange of executive agency for the administrators/ enforcers of "The Law".
from the Jowett introduction to Plato's "Laws"
The executive of Plato's Laws, like the Athenian, was different from that of a modern civilized state. The difference chiefly consists in this, that whereas among ourselves there are certain persons or classes of persons set apart for the execution of the duties of government, in ancient Greece, as in all other communities in the earlier stages of their development, they were not equally distinguished from the rest of the citizens. The machinery of government was never so well organized as in the best modern states. The judicial department was not so completely separated from the legislative, nor the executive from the judicial, nor the people at large from the professional soldier, lawyer, or priest. To Aristotle (Pol.) it was a question requiring serious consideration—Who should execute a sentence? There was probably no body of police to whom were entrusted the lives and properties of the citizens in any Hellenic state. Hence it might be reasonably expected that every man should be the watchman of every other, and in turn be watched by him. The ancients do not seem to have remembered the homely adage that, 'What is every man's business is no man's business,' or always to have thought of applying the principle of a division of labour to the administration of law and to government. Every Athenian was at some time or on some occasion in his life a magistrate, judge, advocate, soldier, sailor, policeman. He had not necessarily any private business; a good deal of his time was taken up with the duties of office and other public occupations. So, too, in Plato's Laws. A citizen was to interfere in a quarrel, if older than the combatants, or to defend the outraged party, if his junior. He was especially bound to come to the rescue of a parent who was ill-treated by his children. He was also required to prosecute the murderer of a kinsman. In certain cases he was allowed to arrest an offender. He might even use violence to an abusive person. Any citizen who was not less than thirty years of age at times exercised a magisterial authority, to be enforced even by blows. Both in the Magnesian state and at Athens many thousand persons must have shared in the highest duties of government, if a section only of the Council, consisting of thirty or of fifty persons, as in the Laws, or at Athens after the days of Cleisthenes, held office for a month, or for thirty-five days only. It was almost as if, in our own country, the Ministry or the Houses of Parliament were to change every month. The average ability of the Athenian and Magnesian councillors could not have been very high, considering there were so many of them. And yet they were entrusted with the performance of the most important executive duties. In these respects the constitution of the Laws resembles Athens far more than Sparta. All the citizens were to be, not merely soldiers, but politicians and administrators.
I too thought the Joker movie was brilliant. As a lifelong Batman fan, I thought this portrayal of Joker adequately answers the question "why won't Batman kill the Joker and be done with the crazy bastard?"
I also like the questions that arise watching the movie from a Szaszian ("mental illness is a myth") perspective. Which the movie kinda rams down your throat. If the Joker is "crazy" you don't have rebut his perspective with more than 4 syllables (you're fuckin nuts).
But if you have to understand the Joker... wow...psychology as acience.
*science
Greeks vs Barbarians...just call me Conan! ;)
Victorian England.... a world-spanning empire of whorehouses and heroin dens.
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