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Razgovory

#3360
May 19, 2017, 04:20:46 PM
Almost finished with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.  Orwell's strengths are his clear prose, honesty, and earnestness.  He's also terribly naive (something does admit to), and has terrible political instincts.  His observations are pretty good, though I question his analysis sometimes.  For instance, he notes that steady trickle of deserters come from the Nationalist lines but almost no deserters coming from the Republican lines.  He claims this is because of the superiority of the message the propaganda broadcasters on the loud speakers.  I suspect it has more to do with the fact that the part of the lines Orwell was manned by volunteers and the nationalists were using conscripts in that location at the time has more to do with it.  I also suspect that the propaganda of creating a socialist world was less effective than the messages about plentiful food.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Savonarola

#3361
May 20, 2017, 10:26:00 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2017, 12:47:51 PM
Freud lends himself easier to comparative archetype studies, and he was all the rage when Hero was written;  Campbell gets Jung more involved (ironically, as Jung gets more popular) as he gets older and explores larger societal themes, but he never really dispenses of one for the other.

Should check out his big lecture series from PBS back in the day if you can.  Neat stuff.

Looks like it's available on Netflix.  I'll get to that once I finish the James Burke documentaries.  Thanks.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#3362
May 20, 2017, 10:29:07 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 19, 2017, 04:20:46 PM
Almost finished with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.  Orwell's strengths are his clear prose, honesty, and earnestness.  He's also terribly naive (something does admit to), and has terrible political instincts.  His observations are pretty good, though I question his analysis sometimes.  For instance, he notes that steady trickle of deserters come from the Nationalist lines but almost no deserters coming from the Republican lines.  He claims this is because of the superiority of the message the propaganda broadcasters on the loud speakers.  I suspect it has more to do with the fact that the part of the lines Orwell was manned by volunteers and the nationalists were using conscripts in that location at the time has more to do with it.  I also suspect that the propaganda of creating a socialist world was less effective than the messages about plentiful food.

CB and I stayed at the same hotel the Orwells did.  The descriptions of the street fighting on The Ramblas seem unbelievable today; that's tourist trap central.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

CountDeMoney

#3363
May 20, 2017, 10:40:34 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 20, 2017, 10:26:00 AM
Looks like it's available on Netflix.  I'll get to that once I finish the James Burke documentaries.  Thanks.

Worse comes to worse, I think they're on audio as well if necessary.

mongers

#3364
May 20, 2017, 11:17:55 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 20, 2017, 10:26:00 AM


Looks like it's available on Netflix.  I'll get to that once I finish the James Burke documentaries.  Thanks.

Connections?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Savonarola

#3365
May 20, 2017, 04:41:41 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2017, 11:17:55 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 20, 2017, 10:26:00 AM


Looks like it's available on Netflix.  I'll get to that once I finish the James Burke documentaries.  Thanks.

Connections?

The Day the Universe Changed; I've seen the original Connections (it's one of my favorite documentary series) and the other two connections aren't yet available on US Netflix.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

CountDeMoney

#3366
May 20, 2017, 04:55:18 PM
Why was I not informed that BSG is now on Hulu?  :mad:

mongers

#3367
May 20, 2017, 04:58:53 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 20, 2017, 04:41:41 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2017, 11:17:55 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on May 20, 2017, 10:26:00 AM


Looks like it's available on Netflix.  I'll get to that once I finish the James Burke documentaries.  Thanks.

Connections?

The Day the Universe Changed; I've seen the original Connections (it's one of my favorite documentary series) and the other two connections aren't yet available on US Netflix.

Thanks I should check out if those are on UK netflix.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Ed Anger

#3368
May 23, 2017, 07:47:40 PM
Reading John Ringo's zombie novels. There is the usual Ringo ick factor of jailbait. At least not fucking jailbait...yet.

And the usual shots at LIBERULS, government and New Yorkers.

Glad the novel was only a buck. It's.....okay I guess.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

11B4V

#3369
May 23, 2017, 08:24:11 PM
Zombies are gay. Gay boy.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ed Anger

#3370
May 23, 2017, 08:25:25 PM
East Front Russian cocksucker
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Maladict

#3371
May 30, 2017, 03:52:02 PM
Should I re-read Dune or keep my 20+ year old memories of it?

Barrister

#3372
May 30, 2017, 03:56:04 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 30, 2017, 03:52:02 PM
Should I re-read Dune or keep my 20+ year old memories of it?

There is nothing wrong with coming back to a once-loved book.  Books do not age over time the way tv or movies do.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

The Brain

#3373
May 30, 2017, 04:04:30 PM
They may even get better, like a fine whine.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

#3374
May 30, 2017, 04:07:37 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 30, 2017, 04:04:30 PM
They may even get better, like a fine whine.

I think you mean like a fine whinny.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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