The Hall of Fire

If identical propaganda takes root in some places and not others, either the circumstances aren't the same or the people aren't (or both). Taking it as given the circumstances are close enough as to be indifferent, that leaves the people. I'm also going to assume biology doesn't come into play, whi...

http://www.ericgarland.co/2016/10/28/ru ... publicans/

An interesting counterpoint to the article from Cracked that puts its finger on some of the problems I had with the original article.

it was emotionally devastating in a way that made me pretty sure I don't ever want to watch that one again Those are always hard to grade. I can't imagine sitting through Schindler's List --or Seven , for very different reasons, or Pan's Labyrinth , for still different reasons--again, even as I ack...

it was emotionally devastating in a way that made me pretty sure I don't ever want to watch that one again Those are always hard to grade. I can't imagine sitting through Schindler's List --or Seven , for very different reasons, or Pan's Labyrinth , for still different reasons--again, even as I ack...

ax, I think you're right about all that, but I don't think exploring the larger historical context was what Wong was after--he just wanted to explain why he thinks people stuck in that situation, however it came to be, feel and vote the way they do. But putting both together sounds like a great ide...

The Cracked article is accurate in a sort of blinkered way, but doesn't go into the larger historical context. The country way of life Wong describes is based on an agrarian model of society that has been in decline since the late 1800s (and beyond that, on land stolen from the people living on it,...

The question, it seems to me, is one of degree and not kind. It's clear from news reports that a significant portion of men--I don't doubt it's a majority in places where active misogyny is still openly practiced and encouraged--view women as a special sort of property. I suspect in the U.S. the pe...

tinwë wrote: I know every inch of that place like it was the back of my hand.

That was me and Ferguson.