Two White Males, Mansplaining
If you think of communication as an exercise in respect for the other, you don’t repeat yourself. Repeating yourself suggests that you’re either demented or that you just don’t care about the other person’s response; you’re prepared to override it and say the same thing again and again. There’s no way in which a chanted slogan invites an answer.
Douglas Murray and Roger Scruton discuss the future of conservatism, why the left wins the culture war, architecture, Twitter mobs, the importance of apologies, and the “institutionalised fraudulence” of woke academia.
Also, open thread.
Did these fans not hear that? Or did they forget?
I couldn’t say. I don’t follow his interviews and haven’t read the novels. But Mr Martin has certainly enjoyed subverting genre tropes – the demise of Ned Stark being an obvious example. Seeing the ostensible main protagonist, the nearest thing to a good guy, being killed off at the end of season one was quite surprising. Ditto, the Red Wedding, etc. Benioff and Weiss take similar pleasure in subverting – or at least thwarting – expectations. It’s a question of who does it with more flair.
And of course, a question of whether such thwarting is ultimately satisfying and sufficient compensation for shunning the kinds of conclusions that readers and viewers otherwise tend to expect.
Can I keep my pink-handled For The Cure chef’s knife? How many virtue points is the pink handle good for?
I got the pink-handled knife some years ago at Target, no surprise, but what WAS a surprise was it was marked down from $20 to $5 after the For The Cure promotion ended. You’d think if anyplace would sell virtue points at full price 24/7/365, it’d be Target.
I don’t want to give the impression I’m picking on Target. They’re the best place to stock up on laundry supplies, and the knife’s a fine knife. It’s just that, well, Target’s funny!
Haven’t watch any of GoT but this Daenerys thing amuses me. Especially people who have named their children after her. Imagine some of those little girls are now about 7 year old. Old enough to be aware of the show and now this plot twist. And I’m sure Mommy told them all about where their unusual name came from.
This somewhat reminds me of something I’ve brought up here before regarding Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. If in that story, with sufficient politicization (my copy has a blurb from Vladimir Lenin) along with repeated “educational instruction” at our fine colleges and universities over the last 100 years or so, the general “truth” about Anna can be turned from a pitiful, fallen woman (as Tolstoy insisted) into a feminist heroine, why can’t the same be done for Daenerys? For the sake of the children, of course. There could be other useful applications as well.
And in another 20 years Game of Thrones will be forgotten, condeming little Daenerys to a lifetime of hearing “How do you spell that?”
Khaleesi, on the other hand, will probably stick around as it looks and sounds like a typical American-black name.
Ah, so kinda like in the 1970’s naming your son Rudolph Jordache.
*chortle*
“The fact that the criminal actors are students, and that the criminal acts occurred on a college campus, should not alter the basic principles creating legal liability for engaging in a criminal act,”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/330500/
…should not alter the basic principles creating legal liability for engaging in a criminal act
“It’s not criminal when we do it!”