This film, I hope, rapes the viewer into how to become an independent thinker.
-Michael Haneke on remaking his film Funny Games for an Anglophone audience
Attack the System- The Life of Plato 20th April 2024“The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” — A.N. Whitehead. Plato is the greatest philosopher that ever lived and yet the life of Plato is shrouded in myth and mystery. The challenge with Plato’s biography is knowing where the legend ends and history […]Keith Preston
- Could Israel Cease To Exist As A Nation-State In The Near Future, And, If It Did, What Would Happen To The Evangelical Church? 20th April 2024By Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, April 18, 2024 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) In the first few weeks following the start of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza, I brought three messages on the subject. […]Keith Preston
- Blue Morning 20th April 2024Unchecked border-crossings, fading churches, disintegrating families, DEI deans and worthless degrees ensure that the American future will be miserable—and that those who will inherit it will be Democrats by Michael Lind April 15, 2024 Michael Lind chronicles civilizational shifts and national trends, writing about American politics and culture […]Keith Preston
- The Life of Plato 20th April 2024
- Samizdata
- Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately 12th February 2024Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s armed forces say served as an important communications center and intelligence hub for the Islamist militant group. Wall Street Journal. ($) Part of a warren of tunnels and subterranean chambers […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Moderate by Rochdale standards 11th February 2024Three days ago the Muslim media outlet 5Pillars expressed doubts about the Labour candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Rochdale: “The troubling backstory of Labour Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali” What was it about Mr Ali that troubled them? The fact that he advised the government on counter-terrorism during the premiership of the hated Tony Blair. […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- “My third leg can be flexible and unbending” 10th February 2024This catchy Chinese-language song “People of the Dragon” by Malaysian filmmaker and recording artist Namewee has had 7.5 million views since it was posted two weeks ago. For centuries the Chinese have used puns and wordplay to poke fun at the powerful, and it seems Namewee’s song is so full of coded uncomplimentary references to […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately 12th February 2024
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species 17th April 2024The eternal tradeoff of dynamism and fertility in urban centersRazib Khan
- Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory 16th April 2024On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg and affiliate professor at the Lundbech Center for Geogenetics, Copenhagen University. A past guest on this podcast, Kristian...Razib Khan, Kristian Kristiansen
- John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes 12th April 2024Dreaming of the Asian centuryRazib Khan
- Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species 17th April 2024
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Concluding thoughts on The Voyage of the Beagle 13th April 2024I first blogged about Charles Darwin’s pre-Origin book back in January, and as stated there was only infrequently reading it (I read two fiction books since then, though only one was scifi and thus merited blogging here). I read this first rather than his more famous later works because I thought this order of reading […]teageegeepea
- The Three-Body Problem 30th March 2024After watching the Netflix series last week, I decided to pick up the first book in the trilogy. I had previously been alternating between fiction & non-fiction books (treating the Southern Reach trilogy like one book), but I’ve just been reading The Voyage of the Beagle when away from home. It’s not like I need […]teageegeepea
- Atoms vs Bits: AI imagines reality as screenwriters would prefer it 24th February 2024A lot of mockery has been made of Google Gemini. Zvi has a round-up here, but I’ll also quote from (thus acknowledging her existence for the first time) Grimes’ ironic appreciation: “offensive to all, comforting to none […] Art for no one, by no one”. Of course, anyone aware of earlier AIs knows that actual […]teageegeepea
- Concluding thoughts on The Voyage of the Beagle 13th April 2024
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
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- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
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- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
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I was interested in Funny Games at first, but the more interviews I read from the director, the more certain I am that I’d be paying ten bucks to sit through a two hour version of an “I hate America” youtube video. It certainly looks well crafted and aptly manipulative, but I don’t admire professionalism or skill to the point that I want to sit through a two hour lecture on why I suck.
I’ll watch it when I get a chance to see it for free, so I don’t feel guilty about turning it off if it annoys me.
Hehe – that quote strikes out on sooo many levels – good and not-so-good I just had to reproduce it here. There’s the audacity aspect which always stands as admirable; then of course you have the implicit assumptions of (and contempt for) his target audience which amuses and insults me by turns. The rest of his interview had him just assuming the mental ineptitude of his audience, based on the fact they may want to watch Commando and Die Hard; hardly an original critique and not necessarily an accurate one.
Now I think about it, am I – the Anglophone ignoramus – the one who needs to be raped into independence, or….?
I think it’s safe to assume that Haneke’s goal is to belittle everyone who speaks English as their first language. An actual quote goes something like “Now that it’s in English, it’s finally found the right audience!” Right, because Germany is about the last place on earth you should expect to find sadists.